colored tr background when not visited

[nashsaint]

Hi,

 

I created tables using echo command, displaying SQL Query.  I created a link to one of the columns.  Now, what i want is to check if the user has visited/clicked the link, if not i want the whole tr background to be something like yellow.

 

Help please.

 

Thanks.

[thebadbad]

If the link fills up the whole tr element (CSS of link set to 100% width and height, basically) You could simply use the CSS pseudo-classes ":link" and ":visited".

 

<style type="text/css">
/* Background color of unvisited link with id="urgent" */
a#urgent:link {
background-color: yellow;
}

/* Background color of visited link with id="urgent" */
a#urgent:visited {
background-color: transparent;
}
</style>

<a id="urgent" href="link_here">Please check this link!</a>

[thebadbad]

Or, the PHP solution could be done by setting either a cookie or a database entry containing the user IP, on the page you want the user to be sure have visited, and then check for this on the page with the table, and color the background either blank or yellow.