The Opquast Digital Quality Framework - Rule n° 141

Rule n° 141 - Visited and unvisited links are visually differentiated.

By default, browser style sheets provide different colours for visited and non-visited links. It is quite legitimate to change this unseemly blue and purple, but why not keep this difference which is useful to the visitor?

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Goal

  • Facilitate the identification of content that has already been visited.
  • Facilitate the identification of content that has yet to be explored.
  • Encourage users to navigate to new pages.

Solution technique

Apart from the navigation menus, do not apply the same default CSS styles for unvisited links (a or a:link selectors) and for visited links ( a: visited selector). To do this: either provide a specific rendering for the links visited, or do not indicate a rendering rule for them (the default browser style can then be applied without difficulty).

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Moyen de contrôle

In each page containing hyperlinks:

  • Check that the : visited selector is in the CSS style sheets and used, and that the style used is different from that applied to a or a: link or else;
  • Check that the : visited selector is not in the CSS stylesheets to let the default browser style apply