css link color styles best practice

Question

There are many css-samples for styling color of links.

html5boilerplate.com offers such css code for link:

a { color: #00e; }
a:visited { color: #551         


        

Answer 1

If you want to be sure that you are styling links (and not the anchors which are not links), you should use a:link instead of a.

And you could add a:active at the end. Here you have a tutorial.