How to remove the default link color of the html hyperlink 'a' tag?

Question

The default link color is blue. How to remove the default link color of the html hyperlink tag ?

Answer 1

.cancela,.cancela:link,.cancela:visited,.cancela:hover,.cancela:focus,.cancela:active{
    color: inherit;
    text-decoration: none;
}

I felt it necessary to post the above class definition, many of the answers on SO miss some of the states

Answer 2

If you don't want to see the underline and default color which is provided by the browser, you can keep the following code in the top of your main.css file. If you need different color and decoration styling you can easily override the defaults using the below code snippet.

 a, a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
      text-decoration: none;
      color: inherit;
 }

Answer 3

This will work

    a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
        outline: none;
    }

What this does is removes the outline for all the three pseudo-classes.

Answer 4

The inherit value:

a { color: inherit; } 

… will cause the element to take on the colour of its parent (which is what I think you are looking for).

A live demo follows:

a {
  color: inherit;
}

<p>The default color of the html element is black. The default colour of the body and of a paragraph is inherited. This
  <a href="http://example.com">link</a> would normally take on the default link or visited color, but has been styled to inherit the color from the paragraph.</p>

Answer 5

You have to use CSS. Here's an example of changing the default link color, when the link is just sitting there, when it's being hovered and when it's an active link.

a:link {
  color: red;
}

a:hover {
  color: blue;
}

a:active {
  color: green;
}

<a href='http://google.com'>Google</a>

Answer 6

I had this challenge when I was working on a Rails 6 application using Bootstrap 4.

My challenge was that I didn't want this styling to override the default link styling in the application.

So I created a CSS file called custom.css or custom.scss.

And then defined a new CSS rule with the following properties:

.remove_link_colour {
  a, a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
      color: inherit;
      text-decoration: none;
  }
}

Then I called this rule wherever I needed to override the default link styling.

<div class="product-card__buttons">
  <button class="btn btn-success remove_link_colour" type="button"><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_product_path(product) %></button>
  <button class="btn btn-danger remove_link_colour" type="button"><%= link_to 'Destroy', product, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></button>
</div>

This solves the issue of overriding the default link styling and removes the default colour, hover, focus, and active styling in the buttons only in places where I call the CSS rule.

That's all.

I hope this helps