CSS - 1px Shift With Inline Line On Visited Links Only

Is there a way to tell the browser not to change the color of a visited link? I have an anchor around some text, but I don't know the color setting of the text. When I visit the link, I just want the text to retain its color based on the other CSS declarations in effect for the text.

So, is there a way to specify a:visited { color: do-not-change; }?

I have been having a problem with my CSS.
I want to make my visited links just a big bigger than my unvisited links so that the users can know where they been


Code:

#mainCategories a:link{
	font-size:.55em;
}
#mainCategories a:visited{
	font-size:.65em;
}
#mainCategories a:hover{
	font-size:.65em;
}
#mainCategories a:active{
	font-size:.65em;
}

it changes size on a:hover but not on a:visited

Good day,

I am a newbie, both to CSS and to these forums.

I recently undertook a job to update a website for a charity and am dealing with the previous webmasters coding, both html and css. I am trying to modernize the site a bit, it is very 1997.

I am running into a bit of trouble with the hover class on one of my pages. When a link has been visited, it no longer changes color and highlights on hover. I read on multiple forums, this one included that it is because you must define hover last, after visited, active, etc. I did this, but still does not work. I am using Firefox 2.

Here is the code I am working with, sorry that is is a bit lengthy, I don't know what parts are important or not because when I just change the hover, link, visted part it doesn't work.

The page I am working with is at beverlyfoundation . org / library / index . html


/* THE BASICS */
body {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #eaf5ff;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #c2d8ec;
}

p {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 14px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

img {
border: none;
}


a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #EAF5FF; }
a:active, a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #E51322; }


/* HEADERS */
h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0px 0px 14px;
}

h1 {
font-size: 220%;
text-align: right;
font-style: italic;
}
h2 { font-size: 140%; }

ul {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-type: square;
}

/* TOP COLORED LINKS */
.navcells {
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
padding: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 11px;
}

#navlinks a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #EAF5FF; }
#navlinks a:hover, a:active { text-decoration: underline; color: #EAF5FF; }



/* LAYOUT */
#header {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-image: url(../images/header_gradient01_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
}


#content {
padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;
background-color: #0060BE;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 12px;
}


#rightcolumn {
background-color: #0060BE;
padding: 10px;
width: 220px;
font-size: 11px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-color: #EAF5FF;
border-right-color: #EAF5FF;
border-bottom-color: #EAF5FF;
border-left-color: #EAF5FF;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
}

#splashrightcolumn {
background-color: #0060BE;
padding: 10px;
width: 220px;
font-size: 11px;
}

#rightcolumn img {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

#rightcolumn p {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

#rightcolumn h1 {
font-size: 180%;
text-align: center;
font-style: italic;
}

#rightcolumn h2 {
margin-top: 21px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
margin-left: 0px;
text-align: center;
}

#rightcolumn a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #EAF5FF; }
#rightcolumn a:hover, a:active { text-decoration: underline; color: #EAF5FF; }


#threecolumn {
padding: 10px;
width: 220px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 12px;
}

#threecolumn a:link, a:visited { color: #EAF5FF; text-decoration: none; }
#threecolumn a:hover, a:active { color: #EAF5FF; text-decoration: underline; }


#footer {
color: #EAF5FF;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 14px;
}

#footer a {
color: #EAF5FF;
text-decoration: none;
}



#address {
color: #EAF5FF;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-color: #EAF5FF;
border-right-color: #EAF5FF;
border-bottom-color: #EAF5FF;
border-left-color: #EAF5FF;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
}

#address a {
color: #EAF5FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}


#address h2 {
margin: 0px;
}

.threecolumns {
color: #EAF5FF;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}

.resourcestore p {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-left: 0px;
}
.gradientrow {
background-image: url(../images/footer_bg01.jpg);
}
.copyright {
font-size: 10px;
}
.resourcestore {
padding: 10px;
}

Hi,

I'm looking for some help with CSS, specifically "a:visitied".

I want the hover over behaviour to remain the same on html links regardless of whether or not they're already in your history.

Is there a way i can do this?

Many Thanks.