using a:hover to change the color of an image

Question

In the following example, a mouse hover over each link changes the image:

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~dm257/sprite.html

The trick is the following line of code:

Answer 1

You absolutely can. Of course, the :visited state will only be visible upon the next load of the page. Browsers are able to determine whether or not a page has been previously accessed via header information.

Here's a jsFiddle that demonstrates the proper declaration order with helpful comments:

• http://jsfiddle.net/fmYdD/4/