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Google chrome a:visited background image not working

Same problem here. Changing background-position in a CSS Sprite on a:visited is working for me in Firefox 3.6 but not in Chrome 6. But probably soon it will stop working in Firefox too. (maybe for FF 4?) It’s a privacy problem, and you can read here a Mozilla article about it (March 2010) http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-coming-to-css-vistited/ And … Read more

Why doesn’t this a:visited css style work?

Actually, this has nothing to do with case sensitivity. This is a security feature. The functionality of :visited pseudoclass has been restricted in many modern browsers (Fx4, IE9, Chrome) to prevent CSS exploit: read about it here. Nowadays, getComputedStyle() in these browsers usually returns values for visited links as if they weren’t visited. However, I … Read more