:any-link

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The :any-link CSS pseudo-class selector represents an element that acts as the source anchor of a hyperlink, independent of whether it has been visited. In other words, it matches every <a> or <area> element that has an href attribute. Thus, it matches all elements that match :link or :visited.

Try it

p {   font-weight: bold; }  a:any-link {   color: forestgreen;   text-decoration-color: hotpink; } 
<p>Pages that you might have visited:</p> <ul>   <li>     <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org">MDN Web Docs</a>   </li>   <li>     <a href="https://www.youtube.com/YouTube">Google</a>   </li> </ul> <p>Pages unlikely to be in your history:</p> <ul>   <li>     <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/missing-3">Random MDN page</a>   </li>   <li>     <a href="https://example.com/missing-3">Random Example page</a>   </li> </ul>

Syntax

css
:any-link {   /* ... */ }

Examples

HTML

html
<a href="https://example.com">External link</a><br /> <a href="#">Internal target link</a><br /> <a>Placeholder link (won't get styled)</a>

CSS

css
a:any-link {   border: 1px solid blue;   color: orange; }  /* WebKit browsers */ a:-webkit-any-link {   border: 1px solid blue;   color: orange; }

Result

Specifications

Specification
Selectors Level 4
# the-any-link-pseudo

Browser compatibility

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See also