Question

I am unable to set the background color for a :visited hyperlink to a different background-color.

Is this a known issue for Google Chrome? I have seen people raising similar issue with background-image. Setting the color attribute seems to be working fine.

This is the code that I used:

a:visited{
    background-color: red;
}

Answer 1

Instead, use the following:

a {
   background-color: white;
}

a:visited{
    background-color: red;
}

For security reasons — specifically, in order to prevent history sniffing — Chrome limits very strictly what can be done using the :visited selector.