Forcing an A:active status on a link

Hello.
I'm trying to solve a problem related to DHTML and CSS.
I produced an HTML page with several links and buttuns.
I then created a CSS file in order to display a yellow background when
a link is clicked by users.

UL.menu1 LI A:active{
BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black

Naturally, having acted on the A:active property, when a link is
clicked, all the others lose the yellow background.
The fact is that my page have to reload frequently. The effect I'd like
to obtain is that, when the page reloads, the link that was 'active'
before reloading continued to show the yellow background.
Having the chance of retrieving the link ID, I tried to force this
status using a simple js line

activeLinkID.click();

at the body onload event. The click was executed but the yellow
background did not appear.

Is there a way to force an 'active' status via DHTML on the link ?

I thank you in advance for any help.

Newcomsas

newcomsas (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

UL.menu1 LI A:active{
BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: black

Naturally, having acted on the A:active property, when a link is
clicked, all the others lose the yellow background.

Of course. :active means "While the mouse button is depressed while over the
link", although Internet Explorer is a bit buggy here IIRC.

The user can hardly be clicking on multiple links at the same time.

The fact is that my page have to reload frequently. The effect I'd like
to obtain is that, when the page reloads, the link that was 'active'
before reloading continued to show the yellow background.

Sounds like you want :target, not :active. Of course :target is only a CSS 3
proposal at present, so browser support is really weak.
http://dorward.me.uk/software/frag/ is a JavaScript that has a similar
effect.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is