:visited selector has partial support Browser Compatibility Check

Description

The :visited CSS selector only supports limited style changes.

Help

Browsers restrict the :visited CSS selector to only color changes, to prevent a web page figuring out other web sites the user has visited.

Applicable standards

• Chrome
• Edge
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari
• iPhone/iPad

Change history

• 5.36 Jan 2020 Now fires for Edge, Opera and IE11.
• 5.29 May 2018 Changed rule ID from BugCssVisited to BugCssSelectorVisited.
• 5.4 Feb 2014 Fixed false positive.
• 4.4 Aug 2011 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: BugCssSelectorVisited