: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; }

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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