: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