Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
Returns or sets the color of an active link in the document body. A link is active during the time between mousedown and mouseup events.
A string containing the name of the color (e.g., blue, darkblue, etc.) or the hexadecimal value of the color (e.g., #0000FF).
When set to the null value, that null value is converted to the empty string (""), so document.alinkColor = null is equivalent to document.alinkColor = "".
The default value for this property in Mozilla Firefox is red (#ee0000 in hexadecimal).
document.alinkColor is deprecated in the HTML specification. One alternative is the CSS selector :active.
Firefox supports both alinkColor/:active and :focus.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-document-alinkcolor> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
alinkColor |
64 | 12 | 69 | 51 | 11 | 64 | 79 | 47 | 11 | 9.0 | 64 | 11 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/alinkColor