In Wikipedia, the color of a link shows the status of the corresponding target page. The default colors (in the Vector skin) have the following meanings:
Note that the colors in the boxes may appear darker than text of the same color; also, larger or bold text will tend to look darker. Furthermore, the actual color seen by a user will vary slightly according to their operating system, desktop settings, and browser, as well as their monitor and (for low-end LCDs) viewing angle. Logged-in users can also change the colors they see by selecting a different skin or using custom CSS.
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Custom link colors
Styling Individual links on a page
You can set the color of an individual link or set of links on page (rather than a global change to the style of all links) as follows. Setting styles in this way will apply to everybody, not just you.
Internal links
You can turn links a different color like so:
Or, if you desire existence checking you can try:
External links
A similar styled span can be added within an external link:
Styling all links just for you
You can also customize link colors by editing the CSS at your skin subpage. This is a change which will apply to all links throughout the site, but will only be visible to you
The standard link selectors are:
- a:link -- defines the style for normal unvisited links
- a:visited -- defines the style for visited links
- a:active -- defines the style for active links; links become active once you click on them
- a:hover -- defines the style for hovered links; links hover when the mouse moves over it
Colors are defined by hexadecimal characters: see web colors.
Notes:
- a:hover must come after a:link and a:visited
- a:active must come after a:hover
- you need to have ".mw-body-content" in front of the standard link definition, because otherwise the default definition on this website will still take precedence over what you have defined.
Show redirects as green links:
Other changes
You can also format the text in other ways.
This allows formatting such as underlines. For example:
Possible values are:
- none
- underline
- overline
- line-through
This will change the link font:
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Scripts
User:Anomie/linkclassifier is a popular script that customizes colors to indicate links such as pages to be deleted, nonfree-media, redirects, protected pages and more.
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