## Defining the appearance of links

By default, text hyperlinks are displayed underlined in blue, active links are displayed underlined in red, and visited links are displayed underlined in purple.

Alternatively, for each page in your site you can override the defaults and specify how each style of link is displayed.

### To define the link colors

- Click the paintbrush icon at the top of the Inspector palette to display the page’s appearance settings.
- Click the [Arrow] to the left of the Links heading to show the link options.
- Choose the color you want for each type of link from the Normal, Active, and Visited pop-up menus:

The color of the links will change to reflect the Normal color you have specified.

### To define the link styles

In addition, if your output option is HTML 4.01 or XHTML you can define CSS link styles.

For example, if you want to change the link to red italic when the mouse pointer is over it:

- Design the style you want to use; see Working with styles.
- Choose the style from the Hover pop-up menu:

The appearance of the links will change to reflect the Normal style you have defined.

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