How to check visited link using jquery without using any plugin

Question

How to check visited link using jquery without using any plugin please help to solve this problem

Answer 1

Just check if it has the :visited property

if ($("a#theLink:visited").length) {
    //anchor tag with id of "theLink" has been visited
}

edit: Remy Sharp has made a jquery plugin to help detect visited links.

edit2 Look like this was security issue mozilla has fixed now, http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-coming-to-css-vistited/

Answer 2

Remy Sharp jQuery plugin won't work anymore because it uses "getComputedStyle" which will always return false in mozilla as explain here : http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-coming-to-css-vistited/