Erasing History

[QuikFrozen]

Hi there:
I was wondering, is there any way to erase the "visited" history on a web page via javascript? Let me explain it a bit, whenever I click on a link, it's marked as "visited", but I don't want it to be marked at all. How can I do this?

[Ryan Fait]

JavaScript cannot access files on a computers system, so this is not possible.

[Ryan Fait]

Now that I think about it though, there are other ways of simulating that a user hasn't visited a certain page. If you're using PHP, for instance, these are different pages in the eyes of a browser, but not to your server.

http://yourdomain.com/page.php
http://yourdomain.com/page.php?time=16092924

[QuikFrozen]

Let me explain what I'm trying to do. I have a menu with links that link only to pages within my domain. So when a link is accesed, the page is loaded and the link is highlighted. I wanted to do that effect by using a:visited on the css file, but I realized that when a page is visited once it stays like that until your history is errased. I wanted to erase the history, but apparently that's not posible.
By the way I'm using jsp to generate the html and a tag to add the menu, so every page has the same menu, that's why I wanted to do this via css. I think the best solution would be to send an argument to the tag that generates the menu indicating in which page the user is at a current time.

[ukgeoff]

Why do actually want to do this?

Indicating to a user where they have been is part of the feedback that most users appreciate, especially if it's a large site.