visited links marked with special character

is there a way to make a checkmark character appear next to a visited link?

[KeithDouglas]

I am working on a webpage that contains a long list of links. In many cases the same link appears under different headers.

I would like to differentiate the visited and unvisited links with more than the usual colors.

Is there a way to use HTML and CSS to cause a special character (I was thinking of a checkmark or an X) appear next to the links that the user has visited? I have noticed that there is a CSS property "visibility" which can take a value of "hidden". Can this be used to make a character visible only when a link has been visited?

Thanks!

[jo1ene]

I'm not really sure how you would only make part of the visited link, in this case a check or x, visible or not with style sheets. JavaScript? Of course you could underline visited links with the text-decoration property of a:visited, but that's maybe not what you're looking for.

I not only change the color of the visited links, but make them a little bit paler. (Is paler a word?)

I would question the user-friendlierness of a long list of anything on one page. Maybe if you broke them up into categories and sub pages (using bread crumbs?), it'd be more clear.

[Krapulator]

You could do something like this in css:-

a{
padding-left: 15px;
}
a:visited {
background: url(/check.gif) left no-repeat;
}

[KeithDouglas]

I would question the user-friendlierness of a long list of anything on one page. Maybe if you broke them up into categories and sub pages (using bread crumbs?), it'd be more clear.

The links are already arranged in different categories, and there are several different pages for different topics. (That's already been done by someone else.) What I see as a problem is that many of the sites appear in multiple categories. So that is why I wanted to make it abundently clear when a visitor has already visited a site.