[email protected] wrote:
From
<https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#dynamic-pseudo-classes>,
describing the CSS attribute used to style "active" elements:
The :active pseudo-class applies while an element is being activated
by the user. For example, between the times the user presses the mouse
button and releases it.
Different colours can be specified via CSS or HTML attributes, so
"active" links might not be highlighted differently for particular
pages. Best to test using a simple HTML file with no explicit styling of
links.
In SeaMonkey, the "Active Links" colour seems to be used as described
above - a link is shown in the "active" colour while holding the mouse
button down on it, and changes to the "visited" colour after opening it.
If you click on a link and move the mouse before releasing, so that the
link doesn't get opened, it stays highlighted in the active link colour.
Using tab to select links doesn't highlight them in the "active" colour
though, which seems a bit inconsistent.
One additional note:
When I click and hold a link (without releasing) in SeaMonkey, I get the
active color, which as you say persists if I move the mouse away before
releasing (the link remains active/selected). If I then hit Enter, the
link is followed and I get the target URL. So in that sense, the link
remains "active" (selected) after I mouse away, and this is shown by the
active color (red by default).
Another way of putting it is that following a link requires the user to
perform two actions on the link: mouse down ("select the link") and
mouse up ("follow the link"). A mouse-up elsewhere on the page does not
order the browser to follow the link. So "active" corresponds to the
mouse-down ("select") action. Having selected the link, the user can
also use Enter to perform the mouse-up ("follow") action.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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