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title: "Tip: Select any link with CSS"
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shortTitle: "CSS :any-link pseudo-class"
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type: tip
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tags: css,visual,interactivity
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author: chalarangelo
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cover: blog_images/round-leaves.jpg
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excerpt: You can use a CSS pseudo-class selector to style all links in a page, without worrying if they have been visited or not.
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firstSeen: 2022-03-06T05:00:00-04:00
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---
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Styling links with CSS is considered straightforward, with most developers using the `:link` and `:visited` pseudo-classes. While this solution is very common, there's a less verbose alternative in the form of the [`:any-link`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:any-link) pseudo-class. This pseudo-class selects all links, regardless of whether they have been visited or not. Thus, it acts as a catch-all for all links on the page.
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```css
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:any-link {
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color: #0444f6;
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}
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```
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One important note is that using `:any-link` is different to using the `[href]` attribute selector. The `:any-link` pseudo-class does not select empty links, whereas the `[href]` attribute selector does.
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