Rule n° 136 - The website applies a different style to visited and unvisited links.

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.

Implementation

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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Control

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

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Business application and benefits

The rules should be applied to your projects from the design phase through to post-implementation , and they should be understood by all professionals with web and customer experience (CX) responsibilities: from strategy to operations, marketers to project managers, and editorial to technical staff. The benefits of using this ruleset are numerous, including improving customer satisfaction, web performance, and e-commerce, and expanding your client base, while also decreasing your errors and costs.

The objective of these rules and the Opquast community mission is ‘making the web better’ for your customers and for everyone! Opquast rules cover the key major areas of risk that can negatively affect website users such as privacy, ecodesign, accessibility and security.

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