Can the highlight color in safari be changed

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Can the highlight color in safari be changed

In Safari is it possible to change the color of a search link that has been click on. When a search is entered the resulting links are blue. When you click on a link and are taken to the site - and then click back to return to the search results, the original link is a purple-blue color. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish between searched and new links

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), iPhone, iPad

Posted on Mar 11, 2016 8:11 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 20, 2017 8:32 AM in response to Charles Gardner

Brilliant, thank you!

But... this obviously affects every website I now visit so, is there a way to restrict it just to Google?

Many thanks for helping me ...see clearly now the rain has gone!

(I bet you'll sing that all day now).

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pinkstones

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Mar 11, 2016 9:01 AM in response to Charles Gardner

Charles Gardner wrote:

In Safari is it possible to change the color of a search link that has been click on. When a search is entered the resulting links are blue. When you click on a link and are taken to the site - and then click back to return to the search results, the original link is a purple-blue color. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish between searched and new links

Not without using a stylesheet, which I know absolutely nothing about.

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Answer 3

Mar 11, 2016 10:37 AM in response to Charles Gardner

Searching online I found and answer that works perfectly from Brendan O'Brien (eHow Contributor)

How to Change the Color of Visited Links on Safari

By Brendan O'Brien

eHow Contributor

Safari is a browser made by Apple for Mac computers. Users can set the browser to refer to their own style sheet that sits on their computer's hard drive. This is a nice feature if you want to change elements of Web browsing, such as the color of visited links. You may want to do this if you are on a page that you want to keep track of the links that you clicked and the default color is the same as unclicked links.

Launch the Text Editor application on your Mac, and click "Format" in the main menu. Choose "Make Plain Text" if available.

Type "a:visited { color: (color) !important; }" in a new text file with (color) being the color that you want visited links to be. Replace "(color)" with the code of the corresponding desired color. For example, if you want visited links to be green, type "a:visited { color: #00FF00 !important; }" in the text file. (A nice orange would be #FF7F00)

Click "File" in the main menu bar, and then click "Save As." Name the file "CustomLinkColor.css" and save it to your desktop. Click the "Use .Css" button in the dialog box.
Launch Safari. Click “Safari" in the main menu bar and choose "Preferences." Click the "Advanced" tab. Click the "Style Sheet" drop-down menu and select "Other." Navigate to the "CustomLinkColor.css" file you saved in Step 3. Highlight it and click "Choose."
Restart your browser. The color of visited links will change to the color that you designated.

Tip and Tricks

Remember that changing the color of visited links will work only on websites that are not referring to overriding style sheets.

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