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Can new lack of link color change be reversed to standard color change?
Several days ago, Yahoo Answers (and all other Yahoo product sites) stopped having normal web page behavior of a link's font changing color after visiting it – see picture below of normal change. Visited link color change is standard HTML / CSS for all web pages. I notice this lack of color change in different browsers, so it is not something I've changed. Is Yahoo taking away age-old standards for all of its websites? If I answer 20 questions in one day, the next day, none of the links stand out, so I need a nearly perfect memory, something I'm not likely to develop.
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- fizixxLv 74 years ago
The color change is normally a function of the browser you use. You will have to search for how to do that in your browser.
That said, I had this happen to me a few weeks ago on here. I checked my browser setting and it was set correctly for visited links and their color. It did not seem to matter to Yahoo however because all the links remained the same.
It must be coded in their pages to override the browser setting and use its own color scheme.
They will also change colors if you delete your cache and cookies, and/or do a restart of your computer, but again, if your browser settings control the color each subsequent link you visit will change to that color, it's only the older links prior to the cleaning/reboot that resets them all to the same color.
Make sense?
Seems Yahoo has made some blanket alteration to the site that affects most/all the user-base. There's nothing you can do about it until they clear it up on their end.
