Remove ALL styling/formatting from hyperlinks

Question

I\'m creating a navigation menu with words with different colors (href links). I would like the color NOT to change on any state (hover, visited etc).

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Answer 1

You can simply define a style for links, which would override a:hover, a:visited etc.:

a {
  color: blue;
  text-decoration: none; /* no underline */
}

You can also use the inherit value if you want to use attributes from parent styles instead:

body {
  color: blue;
}
a {
  color: inherit; /* blue colors for links too */
  text-decoration: inherit; /* no underline */
}

Answer 2

if you state a.redLink{color:red;} then to keep this on hover and such add a.redLink:hover{color:red;} This will make sure no other hover states will change the color of your links

Answer 3

You can just use an a selector in your stylesheet to define all states of an anchor/hyperlink. For example:

a {
    color: blue;
}

Would override all link styles and make all the states the colour blue.

Answer 4

As Chris said before me, just an a should override. For example:

a { color:red; }
a:hover { color:blue; }
.nav a { color:green; }

In this instance the .nav a would ALWAYS be green, the :hover wouldn't apply to it.

If there's some other rule affecting it, you COULD use !important, but you shouldn't. It's a bad habit to fall into.

.nav a { color:green !important; } /*I'm a bad person and shouldn't use !important */

Then it'll always be green, irrelevant of any other rule.