Title: Stop Title Being Hyperlink?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Stop Title Being Hyperlink?

 *  Resolved [johanna_london](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanna_london/)
 * (@johanna_london)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-title-being-hyperlink/)
 * Hi!
    In index.php I retrieve my post title into a table like below. I am very
   pleased with the table layout.
 * I then try to format the actual title text (in style.css) to remain a hyperlink,
   but to have the same text colour as the rest of the text.
 * But I just can’t get it to work, although I know it is possible. The text remains
   purple (visited link) whatever I do! Please, can you help? What classes should
   I format, and how?
    I thought that the post_title:link etc would work..? Johanna
 * from index.php:
    <!–Populate the Post Title –> <table border=”0″ cellspacing=”
   0″ cellpadding=”0″ width=”98%”> <tr><td colspan=”3″ class=”post_title_date”> 
   <?php the_time(_t(‘l jS F, Y’)) ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td class=”post_left_title_ico”
   > </td> <td class=”post_title”> <a class=”post_title_text” href=”<?php the_permalink()?
   >” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”> <?php the_title();?
   >
 * </td>
    <td class=”post_right_title_ico”> </td> </tr> </table> ===============
   =====================

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-title-being-hyperlink/#post-456775)
 * You’ll have to dig around in the style.css file for the a:visited, and change
   the color. If there isn’t a color specified, then you need to specify it.
 * Other than that, you may have to really use stylesheet specificity, but I can’t
   help much since you’re doing layout with tables. You’d have to do something like
   td a:visited and maybe add in a class too…. depends on what you’ve actually got
   in the stylesheet.
 *  Thread Starter [johanna_london](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanna_london/)
 * (@johanna_london)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-title-being-hyperlink/#post-456782)
 *  Thread Starter [johanna_london](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanna_london/)
 * (@johanna_london)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-title-being-hyperlink/#post-456783)
 * That worked! Thanks vkaryl x!
 * (I had to use the div class to apply the property to, but it turned out I had
   had a syntax error earlier.)
 * I never had expected css&html to be this tricky – the positioning is insane. 
   I had thought “Oh well I know programming, so I can learn it in no time” lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   that did not happen 😉
 * For the record; I am NOT using tables for positioning. I only used it for that
   one header.
 * And I just learnt that you the top function only “works” if you have applied 
   the appropriate Position attribute.
 * Oh well, my blog is a project for learning CSS.

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 * Last reply from: [johanna_london](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanna_london/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stop-title-being-hyperlink/#post-456783)
 * Status: resolved

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