diff --git a/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/styles.tid b/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/styles.tid
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61faa521b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/styles.tid
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+title: $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/styles
+tags: [[$:/tags/Stylesheet]]
+
+\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline macrodef macrocallinline
+
+button.tc-tiddlylink.tc-freelink, a.tc-tiddlylink.tc-freelink {
+	background-color: #5777d91c;
+}
diff --git a/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/text.js b/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/text.js
index 8803c8cd2..409f40086 100755
--- a/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/text.js
+++ b/plugins/tiddlywiki/freelinks/text.js
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ TextNodeWidget.prototype.execute = function() {
 					childParseTree[index] = {
 						type: "link",
 						attributes: {
-							to: {type: "string", value: match[0]}
+							to: {type: "string", value: match[0]},
+							"class": {type: "string", value: "tc-freelink"}
 						},
 						children: [{
 							type: "plain-text", text: match[0]