Re:Line under hyperlink

[David Egan]

Hi

Want to know how you remove the line under a hyper link (text) when the
mouse is not over the link and when you move the mouse over the link (text)
the under line appears most proffessional sites operate this way.

Is Java script required for this?


Regard
David

 

[Chris Morris]

Want to know how you remove the line under a hyper link (text) when the
mouse is not over the link and when you move the mouse over the link (text)
the under line appears most proffessional sites operate this way.

a { text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }

Make sure you make it clear through some other means that the text is
a link, the reverse behaviour (underline vanishes on mouse-over) is
also very common and easier to use.

a:hover { text-decoration: none; }

 

[brucie]

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Want to know how you remove the line under a hyper link

Links Want To Be Links
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/links.html

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

David Egan began a thread with "Re:"

Want to know how you remove the line under a hyper link (text) when
the mouse is not over the link and when you move the mouse over the
link (text) the under line appears most proffessional sites operate
this way.

Why would you want to confuse your visitors? How are they to find your
links if they are not underlined? Do you have a URL?

Any professional site that does this needs some training in the web
department.

Is Java script required for this?

No. Use CSS if you really must. Look into
{ text-decoration: none }

 

[Spartanicus]

Hi

Don't prefix subject lines with "Re:" if you are posting a new message.

 

[Barry Pearson]

David Egan began a thread with "Re:"


Why would you want to confuse your visitors? How are they to find your
links if they are not underlined? Do you have a URL?

Any professional site that does this needs some training in the web
department.

[snip]

I tend to agree if these are "stand-along" links in some sense. (I
experimented, but changed back to underlines for that reason).

But if these are links that are made to look like buttons, or links in some
drop-down menu, I think people know enough to realise that they links.
Especially if the the whole of the button, instead of just the text part of
it, is sensitive to "hover".

 

[Mitja]

Links Want To Be Links
But some of them want to look oh so pretty. It's only democratic to allow
it... [As long as it stays evident what they are]

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

But if these are links that are made to look like buttons, or links
in some drop-down menu, I think people know enough to realise that
they links.

Pardon? If you deliberately do quite some work to prevent links from
looking like links, turning them to buttons or dropdown menu entries, how
can you seriously say that they - of all links - should be recognized as
links?

 

[brucie]

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But some of them want to look oh so pretty. It's only democratic to allow
it... [As long as it stays evident what they are]

i don't have a problem with that[1] but i think people should be aware
of the issues involved before they do it, not just do it just because
its kewl and screw it up.


[1] i own the patent on removing underlines and get 50 cents every time
someone does it.

 

[Whitecrest]

Pardon? If you deliberately do quite some work to prevent links from
looking like links, turning them to buttons or dropdown menu entries, how
can you seriously say that they - of all links - should be recognized as
links?

Virtually every good CSS dropdown menu example does away with the
underline.