Title: Visited links Last modified: February 14, 2018 --- # Visited links * Resolved [marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/) * (@marywt) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/) * I am putting together a website using Oblique, which is brilliant in so many ways … but … Vistited link show exactly the same as unvisited links and I think this is a real problem for ease of use. I have been through and through the customiser and found nothing to help because any changes also change the header text on the banner, which I don’t want. I have downloaded Yellow Pencil CSS editor and changes I make there on visited links show up in the editor and the coding but don’t show on a live site. I have tried coding into the CSS editor in Customiser but I am not good at that and my attempts have all resulted in failure to get it right. * I have changed the link text to italic using Yellow Pencil and I would like the visited link to change from italic to normal text, no text style. Can you please help me get this to happen? * Thanks, Mary Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [ancapantilie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ancapantilie/) * (@ancapantilie) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/#post-10128111) * Hi [@marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/)! * I’d be glad to help you, but can you please provide the link to your site? * Thread Starter [marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/) * (@marywt) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/#post-10128658) * At the moment it is not fully active as it will eventually replace another site. It is sandbox.historic-sidmouth.uk * [ancapantilie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ancapantilie/) * (@ancapantilie) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/#post-10131156) * [@marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/), * I’m afraid I am not able to access your site. * Thread Starter [marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/) * (@marywt) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/#post-10131364) * I have set up a user to allow you to see it, but not do more. Obviously putting details out in a public forum is not sensible so please let me know when you have used it and I can remove the user. * The temporary user is Test and the password is test. * If you need more access than that them we need to private message somehow. * [ancapantilie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ancapantilie/) * (@ancapantilie) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/#post-10137457) * Hi [@marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/), * I saw what I needed. You can remove the user now. I’ll be back as soon as possible with the solution. * Have a nice day! * [ancapantilie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ancapantilie/) * (@ancapantilie) * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visited-links/#post-10140768) * [@marywt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marywt/), * I looked into this problem and I’m afraid that you are not going to be able to do that. When the :visited selector is combined with getComputedStyle() in JavaScript it means that someone can walk through your history and figure out where you’ve been. * As a result, most browsers restrict what styling can be changed on :visited links, and what styling information can be reported with the getComputedStyle method. * > These are the properties that can be changed with :visited: > color > background-color border-color (and its sub-properties) outline-color > The color parts of the fill and stroke properties You can only use :visited > to change those properties if the link already has them in the “unvisited” > or :link state. You can’t use it to add properties that aren’t already present > on the link. For example: > You can change the background-color of a :visited link if the link element > already had a background color. > You can’t add a background-color to a :visited link if it did not have a background > color when it was an “unvisited” link. * I hope it all makes sense now. * Have a great day! 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