Re: Change color of hyperlinked text in email after clicked

Atara_Rotenberg · ‎10-09-2013

Hi,
Does anyone know how I can change the color of a hyperlink in an an email after someone clicks on it. So instead of changing to purple I can make it another color, or even not have it change color at all?

Thanks,
Atara

Anonymous · ‎10-09-2013

You can use these stylesheet settings:

a {
	color: blue;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

a:active {
	color: yellow;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:link {
	color: blue;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

a:visited {
	color: purple;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:focus {
	color: red;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
	color: red;
	text-decoration: none;
}

but in an email it would be better to use it inline.
Unfortunately this is not possible.

To prevent colors of changing at all you should use:
<a href="www.domain.com/path" style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">download</a>
By adding the color to the style of the hyperlink it will remain that color, no matter what.
The text-decoration:none; is to remove the underline, but you can also not use it, or use the value "underline".

Anonymous · ‎10-10-2013

It is easier to set it in the body-tag of your template. Where link="color" sets the color of a not visited link and vlink sets the visited link. The color is in RGB.

Example:
<body vlink="#009FE3" link="#009FE3">

Anonymous · ‎10-10-2013

Hi Peter, that's true. However this attributes are now depreciated. So shouldn't be used anymore.
http://resources.bravenet.com/articles/site_building/CSS/the_body_tag_deprecated_attributes/

Anonymous · ‎10-10-2013

I agree with Diederik. While most email clients offer a reasonable degree of backward compatibility there is no assurance it is going to last or users will have a system that support legacy tags.

It is not even limited to legacy. Yahoo Mail ignores the paragraph tag and MS-Outlook does not handle background images.

It is safer to code for the unknown email client.