Visited Link - Refresh Issue?

Question

Here's the scenario:
The CSS link styles are designed to show a: link {blue} and
a: visited {purple}.
A user clicks a hyperlink from the home page. Upon clicking
the IE Back button, the link displays the appropriate visited
purple color on the home page.
All is well at this point.
However, with the home page displaying the aforementioned
visited link in purple, when the user clicks anywhere on the home
page, the visited link returns to its original blue.
This is just one click. You could click in some white space
on the home page, and the visited link "refreshes" to its original
state.
I have seen this issue with my HTML / CSS projects as well as
many other instances on the Web.
My goal is to have the visited link stay purple much like
what occurs when using Google to surf the Net all day long.
Please help as I have researched this issue now for two days
on the Net and cannot find the appropriate answer and
solution.

Answer 1

Post a link to the page, please.
By the way, it's a:link, not a: link (no space).
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> Here's the scenario:
>
> The CSS link styles are designed to show a: link {blue}
and a: visited
> {purple}.
>
> A user clicks a hyperlink from the home page. Upon
clicking the IE Back
> button, the link displays the appropriate visited purple
color on the home
> page.
>
> All is well at this point.
>
> However, with the home page displaying the
aforementioned visited link in
> purple, when the user clicks anywhere on the home page
the visited link
> returns
> to its original blue.
>
> This is just one click. You could click in some white
space on the home
> page,
> and the visited link "refreshes" to its original state.
>
> I have seen this issue with my HTML / CSS projects as
well as many other
> instances on the Web.
>
> My goal is to have the visited link stay purple much
like what occurs when
> using Google to surf the Net all day long.
>
> Please help as I have researched this issue now for two
days on the Net
> and
> cannot find the appropriate answer and solution.
>