Why won't my visited link have a background color?

Question

It seems that a:visited won\'t work in showing background color on my links.

http://jsfiddle.net/davestein/D2srA/

What super simple thing am I missing?

Answer 1

I'm not sure of the technical reason here, but this only seems to work for me if I add a background-color for a:

a { background-color: #ffffff; }

a:visited { background-color: #ff0000; }