Is there a way CSS method of giving properties to links that are currently being viewed/active?

For example, if I'm on index.php, and there's a link on the page that links to index.php, is there a way to give that link properties so that it's a different color/italic/etc?

Up until this point I've been using PHP to check the PHP_SELF value and then put 'if' statements into the <a> tag, which seems like sort of a hack job.

Thanks

One method is to define a new CLASS to be applied to the link. Define whatever changes you want for that 'current' link. An example would be changing the background color:

.current{background: #d6b7e5; font-style: oblique;}

HTML would then be:
<a class="current" href="#">Photo gallery<a>

Right, that's basically what I'm doing now. It just seems to me like an old technique, given the enormous power of CSS.

I wish the pseudo:active class would compare the current document you're looking at with the link in the <a> tag. Oh well.

It may be 'old', but it works every time

Thanks Lady