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Accessing color of hyperlinks?
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Accessing color of hyperlinks? -
07-12-2004
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| [ This is my second attempt to post this; sorry for repeats. ] Suppose I want to set some color to match the color of (unvisited) hyperlinks, whatever this color may be (without explicitly setting this color, of course). How can I specify it? |
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"KKramsch" <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch (AT) yahooPERIODcom (DOT) invalid> wrote in message news:ccuhpv$2p7$1 (AT) reader2 (DOT) panix.com... [ This is my second attempt to post this; sorry for repeats. ] Suppose I want to set some color to match the color of (unvisited) hyperlinks, whatever this color may be (without explicitly setting this color, of course). How can I specify it? With client-side script. |
How??? After scanning all the properties of links (including
"style"), not a single one reveals color.
Karl
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In <2lg0k3Fcc4csU1 (AT) uni-berlin (DOT) de> "Harlan Messinger" h.messinger (AT) comcast (DOT) net> writes: "KKramsch" <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch (AT) yahooPERIODcom (DOT) invalid> wrote in message news:ccuhpv$2p7$1 (AT) reader2 (DOT) panix.com... [ This is my second attempt to post this; sorry for repeats. ] Suppose I want to set some color to match the color of (unvisited) hyperlinks, whatever this color may be (without explicitly setting this color, of course). How can I specify it? With client-side script. How??? After scanning all the properties of links (including "style"), not a single one reveals color. |
attribute, and use that to get its color, but of course you have no control
over whether that link has been visited or not.
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"KKramsch" <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch (AT) yahooPERIODcom (DOT) invalid> wrote: "Harlan Messinger" <h.messinger (AT) comcast (DOT) net> writes: "KKramsch" <karlUNDERSCOREkramsch (AT) yahooPERIODcom (DOT) invalid> wrote: Suppose I want to set some color to match the color of (unvisited) hyperlinks, whatever this color may be (without explicitly setting this color, of course). How can I specify it? With client-side script. How??? After scanning all the properties of links (including "style"), not a single one reveals color. On second thought, I'm not sure. I was thinking you'd have a link with an ID attribute, and use that to get its color, but of course you have no control over whether that link has been visited or not. |
DOM was coined (it dates back to Netscape 2 JavaScript).
It will return the unvisited link colour for the document - tests in
IE6 show that it returns the link colour set via <body link="#rrggbb">
or if that isn't set then it returns the browser's default link
colour. It does not return link colours set via author CSS. I doubt it
returns link colours set via user CSS.
So that's a partial solution. In addition you would want to query the
styleSheets[] collection and its styleSheet compoments and find any
the :link definitions. Whilst I believe this can be done I haven't got
the code written already (yeah I'm lazy) and determinging which of
many :link styles is relevant to your goal may be a difficult taks in
itself.
Steve
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