Clicked links not changing color in HTML5 output

[ibmgeek]

One of my developers just hit me with a bug stating that the links in my HTML5 output are not changing color after being clicked. I'm using 9.1.2 to publish to HTML5 and PDF.

He wrote:
"Chrome and Firefox Comparison of Links Changing Color to Indicate That it has been clicked

When using chrome and in the Information Center, if you click on a link to another section, the link will not change to purple. On other browsers, all the links will change when clicked. The only link that I can find that will actually change is Support."

Anyone else seeing this and know how to fix it?

THANKS!

[SteveS]

Going on the information provided I would be checking the a:visited property for the links that don't work, comparing it to the link that does change font colour after visiting.

If possible, I'd also check using the same browser on your own machine.

Does it work for the tester using other browsers? Your posting suggests it does, so is it something to do with the tester's configuration?

[MattyQ]

It might be worth checking how you've defined colors for the a element in the project, too (here's a jsfiddle demonstrating some of the issues that can arise based on the way you've defined colors: https://jsfiddle.net/MattyQ/8yfgk6qz/1/).

It looks like the Chrome community forums list some people experiencing similar issues, which were usually solved by clearing the browser's cache.

[ChoccieMuffin]

Also, the order in which you define in your stylesheet a:Link, a:Visited, a:Hover, a:Focus and a:Active is important.

Quote from the Help file:

Note: In order for <a> link pseudo classes to function properly, they must appear in the following order in the stylesheet (you can see this by opening the stylesheet in Notepad).

a:link
a:visited
a:hover
a:focus
a:active

In order to avoid issues with this, and to ensure that your pseudo classes are working, you should explicitly set values on those pseudo classes, rather than expecting them to inherit settings from other tags.

[ibmgeek]

I'm using the default style sheet with all of the defaults set.