Use jQuery to Select Visited Links

Question

I\'m trying to select all visited links via jQuery. Here is the HTML

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Answer 1

The given approach has been disabled for security reasons.

As it is possible to retrieve a visitor's history by checking for visited links, certain measures have been taken by browser vendors to prevent this.

Source: Mozilla Foundation Blog.

Checked in Chrome and FF - both don't support $("a:visited") any longer.