My a:visited link is not working correctly.

[Pamela88]

I am working on an assignment for my html5 web development class and I am having trouble with my navigation bar the color that I assign to the a:visited link ends up being the background color for the whole navigation links and it doesn't change when one has been visited. Here is my code :

[#nav {
padding: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
float: left;
width: 160px;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-left: 20px; }
#nav a { text-decoration:none;
display: block;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
border: 3px outset #cccccc;
padding: 5px;
color: #ffffff;
}
#nav a:link { color: #ffffff;
background-color: #000033; }
#nav a:visited { background-color: #90c7e3; }
#nav a:hover {border: 3px inset #666666;
background-color: #3399cc; } ]

So the visited link color is supposed to be #90c7e3 just like I have it written but instead it makes all of the navigation buttons that color and it does not change color when one of the links are visited. Also if I change that color it once again changes the whole navigation bar color rather then changing when a link is visited. I would really appreciate any help I could get because this is driving me a little crazy lol... :-)

[felgall]

Presumably you have visited all those pages recently enough for the browser to still remember the visit.

[Pamela88]

Yes I have, but it just wont work right and I can not figure out what the problem is.

[KULP]

Originally Posted by Pamela88

Yes I have, but it just wont work right and I can not figure out what the problem is.

That is the answer to your problem, then. If every link is visited, the whole bar will show up as visited.

[webdevs]

Just change the visited color to different color then your navigation background color.

[Pamela88]

I have tried reloading it to the server and clearing my cache also I pulled up the website on google chrome and internet explorer but the visited link color wont change if I click on a link.

[Excavator]

Hello Pamela88,
Give us a link to the test site, or post your entire code, so we can see what is overwriting your :visited styling or why it won't work.