css/CSS2/cascade/html-attribute-002.xht

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>CSS Test: Attribute 'alink' vs. CSS active specificity</title>
        <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#preshint" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade-3/#preshint" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade-4/#preshint" />
        <meta name="flags" content="interact" />
        <meta name="assert" content="Attribute 'alink' has a specificity of zero and is overridden by CSS." />
        <style type="text/css">
            *:active
            {
                color: green;
            }
            a
            {
                color: black;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body alink="red">
        <p>Test passes if the "Filler Text" below changes to green when the text is activated.</p>
        <div>
            <a href="#">Filler Text</a>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>