Deprecated
This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
Returns or sets the color of an active link in the document body. A link is active during the time between mousedown
and mouseup
events.
Syntax
var color = document.alinkColor; document.alinkColor = color;
color is a string containing the name of the color (e.g., blue
, darkblue
, etc.) or the hexadecimal value of the color (e.g., #0000FF
)
Notes
The default value for this property in Mozilla Firefox is red (#ee0000
in hexadecimal).
document.alinkColor
is deprecated in DOM Level 2 HTML. One alternative is the CSS selector :active
.
Another alternative is document.body.aLink
, although this is deprecated in HTML 4.01 in favor of the CSS alternative.
Gecko supports both alinkColor
/:active
and :focus
. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 support alinkColor
/:active
only for HTML anchor (<a>) links and the behavior is the same as :focus
under Gecko. There is no support for :focus
in IE.
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
alinkColor | Chrome
Full support
64
| Edge Full support 12 | Firefox Full support Yes | IE ? | Opera Full support Yes | Safari Full support Yes | WebView Android
Full support
64
| Chrome Android
Full support
64
| Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android Full support Yes | Safari iOS Full support Yes | Samsung Internet Android
Full support
9.0
|
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.