Closed
Bug 11230
Opened 26 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
{compat} Active links should be red
Categories
(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)
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VERIFIED
FIXED
M10
People
(Reporter: allen.sam, Assigned: buster)
Details
(Whiteboard: [NOTESTCASENEEDED])
By default, 4.x changes the color of active links to red. Mozilla changes them
to 'lime'.
(I would suggest sticking to the same coloring scheme as 4.x because some page
authors have come to rely on it -- for example, by making a page's background
yellow, against which lime fades but red remains visible.)
Sure enough, ua.css shows the color is specified as 'lime' for active links.
Kipp, cvs indicates you made this change (quite a while ago), so I'm assigning
to you since I assume you best understand why the colors were chosen
Summary: Active links should be red → {compat} Active links should be red
Whiteboard: [NOTESTCASENEEDED]
In the sample stylesheet for displaying HTML2 in CSS, a:active is defined as
lime. But that section of the appendix is informative, not normative, and
further mentions that the colors "have been added for completeness." So it's
certainly not set in stone that lime is required.
CSS2's sample stylesheet for HTML4 doesn't suggest any particular color.
I don't think that a default color of red for active links would violate any
W3C specification.
(This is an 4.x compatibility thing -- marking as such.)
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