Name

link — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

Read/Write

The color of a hypertext link that has not been visited (that is, the URL of the link is not in the browser’s cache). This is one of three states for a link: unvisited, activated, and visited. The color is applied to the link text or border around an image or object embedded within an A element. This property has the same effect as setting the document object’s linkColor property.

Example

document.body.link = "#00FF00"

Value

A hexadecimal triplet or plain-language color name. See Appendix A for acceptable plain-language color names.

Default

#0000FF

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