Re: A-Link sticky on IE / PC

That is a quirk with IE. You will need to specify alink not to be the same
bgcolor as your page. I have the same thing happening on my own site. Just
to busy to worry about changing the alink color.
----- Original Message -----
From: <cbirds(at)earthlink.net>
To: "HWG" <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: A-Link sticky on IE / PC


> I have seen this (bug?) on my secretary's PC and just now it was reported
> to me from another person using IE on a PC.
> The active link does not "pop back", making the link unreadable, or
> equivalent to the behaviour of a vlink, even where the vlink is specified
> as yet another color. (For example, background of the page is white and
> alink is white... and stays that way.)
>
> Is there something in the way IE on the PC sees the alink code that would
> make this happen? Has anyone seen this before?
>
> Doesn't matter, by the way, whether you use the old fashioned tag in the
> body string or new style in the header, same effect happens. The only
> explanation is that they might not be using page-specified link colors?
>
> Thanks.
>

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