[html] Blue and Purple Default links, how to remove?

This is one of the links in my nav:

<li><a href="#live-now" class="navBtn"><span id="navLiveNow" class="white innerShadow textShadow">Live Now</span></a></li>

I also have the following in my css:

a { text-decoration: none; }
a:visited { text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
a:focus { text-decoration: none; }
a:hover, a:active { text-decoration: none; }

But the links still display in the awful blue/purple visited /hover html default. What am i doing wrong?

By default link color is blue and the visited color is purple. Also, the text-decoration is underlined and the color is blue. If you want to keep the same color for visited, hover and focus then follow below code-

For example color is: #000

a:visited, a:hover, a:focus {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #000;
}

If you want to use a different color for hover, visited and focus. For example Hover color: red visited color: green and focus color: yellow then follow below code

   a:hover {
        color: red;
    }
    a:visited {
        color: green;
    }
    a:focus {
        color: yellow;
    }

NB: good practice is to use color code.

If you wants display anchors in your own choice of colors than you should define the color in anchor tag property in CSS like this:-

a { text-decoration: none; color:red; }
a:visited { text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { text-decoration: none; }
a:focus { text-decoration: none; }
a:hover, a:active { text-decoration: none; }

see the demo:- http://jsfiddle.net/zSWbD/7/

<a href="https://www." style="color: inherit;"target="_blank">

For CSS inline style, this worked best for me.

Hey define color #000 into as like you and modify your css as like this

.navBtn { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
.navBtn:visited { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
.navBtn:hover { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
.navBtn:focus { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
.navBtn:hover, .navBtn:active { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }

or this

 li a { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
 li a:visited { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
 li a:hover { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
 li a:focus { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }
 li a:hover, .navBtn:active { text-decoration: none; color:#000; }

REMOVE DEFAULT LINK SOLVED that :visited thing is css.... you just go to your HTML and add a simple

< a href="" style="text-decoration: none" > < /a>

... thats the way html pages used to be