An overiding style for links

  • I have some style that is overriding the colour of my links.

    I have looked in Safari developer tools and it is called:

    a:-webkit-any-link {
    color: -webkit-link;
    text-decoration: underline;
    cursor: auto;
    }

    But I cant find it anywhere in the style sheet, does anyone know how I might fix this?

    Many thanks
    Mel

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  • a:any-link is a new pseudo-class. It matches an ‘a’ tag that that has :link or :visited.

    You should be able to override this by putting the following at the bottom of your style.css:

    a {
 color: red;
}
a:visited {
 color: red;
}

    Alternatively if this doesn’t work just add an !important after each:

    a {
 color: red!important;
}
a:visited {
 color: red!important;
}

    Obviously change ‘red’ for your colour. A link to your site might also he helpful in the future. Let me know if this works for you ??

    Thread Starter mellyg

    (@mellyg)

    Heya thanks for the response.

    Yes, that changed the links, the problem with it is that it changes the colour of all of the links in the nav bar, and I need them to be different.

    There current style is below, but its not getting picked up. Any ideas?
    nav a {
    color:#FFF;
    }

    Sounds like you’ve used the CSS I provided with the !important at the end so you will also need to add !important to the end of the colour for the navigation:

    nav a {
  color: #fff!important;
}

    The colours will affect all links so check this isn’t affecting anywhere else in your theme.

    Thread Starter mellyg

    (@mellyg)

    Yes – that worked, thanks a million.

    No problem, glad I could be of assistance!

    @graphicscove
    I’m having a similar issue. I understand why !important can correct the issue but I don’t understand why it happened in the first place. I was working on the site last night and the text-decoration and :hover was working fine but I guess I was messing around with some other css and when I get up this morning, chrome is overriding with a:-webkit-any-link. I can’t find anything I did to cause this but obviously I did something.

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