Hit Back on iPhone; link :hover color still shown... but not on all sites?

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On iOS, when you tap a link, the CSS :hover color shows for a moment (which is nice).

But if you then tap the Back button, the same link is shown in :hover color without you even having to touch it. Annoying! Especially for major navigation buttons. MacRumors top navigation tabs show this problem: tap to another tab, hit Back, and you’ll see.

How can I fix this in CSS? I’m stumped.

I think it’s fixable, but I can’t tell why some sites with :hover do not have this problem:

- CNN.com (try the blue article links)
- Apple.com (try the top tabs)
- The forums here! (try any link—except, as I say, the top tabs)

(I’ve heard of people using body onunload to de-focus all links as you leave a page. But none of the three sites above seem to do that. So I don’t want to throw Javascript at this problem.)

TIA!