Question

How do you change the color of an unvisited link as well as a visited link? I want to make unvisited links a darker blue, and the visited links a darker gray.

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-- CharlesSheppard - 13 Sep 2006

Answer

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See PatternSkinCustomization for general information about modifying PatternSkin. Basically, what you're going to do is this:

1. Go to PatternSkin in your installation and look at the attached css files. (I believe the one you'll want is colors.css but it might be in styles.css.) Find the style definitions associated with .twikiLink and copy those that you want to over-ride.
2. Create a new text file called something like mystyles.css and paste in the style definitions you want to change. Edit the color attribute to your liking.
3. Attach this file to some topic. I like to create a topic in the Main web called something like MySiteSkin to hold all my custom skin files.
4. Finally, in TWiki.TWikiPreferences, or better Main.TWikiPreferences include this setting:

   * Set USERSTYLEURL = %PUBURL%/Main/MySiteSkin/mystyles.css

This will make the style definitions in mystyles.css over-ride the default skin styles.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 13 Sep 2006