> I just restyled the links on a site I've been working on, and 
> am encountering IE resistance as usual.  Here is a sample 
> page that contains two links within the content area:
> 
> http://www.kipke.com/issues.html
> http://www.kipke.com/kipke.css
> 
> If you view this page in non-IE browsers, you should see a 
> different link hover style for visited and non-visited links. 
>  Try visiting the one at the top of the content area and not 
> the one at the bottom for a comparison.  Then hover over both.
> 
> In IE, however, the :visited:hover style overrides the 
> regular :link:hover one, and I do not seem to be able to work 
> around it.  (For the record, the dashed yellow line should 
> change to a solid yellow one, not red, when the link has not 
> yet been visited.)  I did find that swapping the order 
> created the opposite problem (:link:hover overriding 
> :visited:hover), but it is a problem either way you look at it.
> 
> In addition, I welcome any input you may have regarding my 
> link styling methodology, which I read about and implemented 
> based on this site:
> 
> http://dbaron.org/css/1999/09/links
> 
> It seems sound, but creates some redundancy in code, and does 
> not seem to allow for a fix to this bug I am experiencing.
> 
> Hopefully this all reads as English.  Thanks for your time, everyone,
> 
> Andy

Hi Andy.

Internet Explorer has incomplete support for multiple dynamic pseudo
selectors like :hover and :active (which is not supported at all).
Therefore, IE will onyl recognize the last one in the chain. For example,
you apply :link:hover and :visited:hover, but IE only only sees :hover on
both, so whichever one comes last in the coding is the one that Internet
Explorer will apply. I believe this is true for both PC and Mac
environments.

To my knowledge, there is no known CSS based work-around.

Bill Brown
Webmaster, MacNimble.com



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