[Telos]

I don't really understand what you are trying to do but link has these states to define

a:link, a:active, a:visited, a:hover

But if I understood correctly you want some kind of navigation system where the current page navigation is displayed differently. You need to set the current page link to a different class like

class="current"

That way you can do whatever you like for that class. Setting the class to active link is another matter and you'll need some scripting there. Let me know if this helps at all.