Does Chrome have issue with setting a:visited css properties?

Question

I am unable to set the background color for a :visited hyperlink to a different background-color.

Is this a known issue for Google Chrome? I have seen people raising similar issue with background-image. Setting the color attribute seems to be working fine.

This is the code that I used:

a:visited{
    background-color: red;
}

Not a duplicate because the resolution of that one is that background-image isn't supposed to work (for security reasons) but background-color *is*. — hobbs, Jul 18 '11 at 01:49
e.g. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-coming-to-css-vistited/ — hobbs, Jul 18 '11 at 01:50

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '11 at 02:04

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Instead, use the following:

a {
   background-color: white;
}

a:visited{
    background-color: red;
}

For security reasons -- specifically, in order to prevent history sniffing -- Chrome limits very strictly what can be done using the :visited selector.

answered Jul 18 '11 at 02:04

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@praveen That's probably because there's no difference between OP's code and the code in this answer; the a:visited property and value is exactly the same. – TylerH Nov 20 '19 at 14:42

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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Sounds like this is unsupported for security reasons, and will be in Firefox too, as detailed in this answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Jul 18 '11 at 01:46

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Does Chrome have issue with setting a:visited css properties?

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