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tmax
12-09-1998, 03:44 AM
I use frontpage 97.
When we make a link on a word, I would get an underline on that word. Is there any way for me to get rid of that **** underlines? We put a man on the Moon, there must be a way to get rid of that underline.
Thank you...
Deb
12-09-1998, 04:04 AM
heheh developers have been asking that question for a long long time.

There is a way to get rid of it but you will need to utilize Style Sheets to do so... the catch is, style sheets only work for browsers 4.x and up... to add to the flavor of things, IE and Netscape have never been able to get a long so though you may be able to make it work for IE4.x it may not work for Netscape 4.x and certainly will not work for any browsers that are older then the 4.x versions ... isn't the Internet grand http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

The commonly used code for this would be:

A:link {
color: #0000CA;
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: bold;
}
A:visited {
color: #800080;
text-decoration: none;
}

The above says that a normal unvisited link will be bold, blue and underlined. The second part states that a visited link will be purple and not underlined. CSS code lives within your <head> and </head> tags. For the definitive source on Style Sheets you may want to visit http://w3c.org/Style/

The general public are catching up with their browsers... so it's fine to use CSS.. If the browser can not read CSS you are safe as it will just show the page w/o the special instructions of CSS.

Happy Developing http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif
Deb



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Del
12-09-1998, 05:54 AM
I use

<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
a {text-decoration: none};
a:hover {color: black};
//-->
</style>
</head>

on all my pages. The first part removes the underline (IE and Nutscape 4+), the second one causes the link to change color onMouseOver (in IE 4+ only). You have to wrap in in a comment tag tho (just like JavaScript) so the unable browsers don't freak out and display your scripting as text http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

Del
tmax
12-09-1998, 05:54 PM
****~!! it works.
USA~! USA~! in your face, everybody.
I got rid of that annoying underlines.

I was wondering.....
How come not much people do this??
Underline is not pretty, you know.
Maybe for the practical reasons.
Thank you and God bless
Deb
12-09-1998, 10:32 PM
How come not much people do this??

For anyone just starting with developing their own sites they normally start with "Beginners HTML" which would not include much, if anything, about CSS so for that real of people it's simply a lack of knowledge at this time.

You also have the many people not using the new 4.x/5.x browsers so for that catagory of people they still do not SEE what the 'big deal' is about.

Then you have those of us that are just lazy http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

And also there are those of us who must code for the 'newbie'. Did you know that over 50% of the new people online take a good two weeks before they realize that if text is underlined it is a probably a link? Many, many, people still need to be told "click Here" which is why you still see those directions so often. If we take out the 'underline clue' then the numbers go up http://www.aota.net/ubb/frown.gif

e.g. it's a matter of preference, skill, time, and deciding who your target audience is, as in what is their skill level...

Good job on getting it to work for you site!!
Deb

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Del
12-10-1998, 05:34 AM
Then there's the more sadistic (sp?) people like me http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif I purposely remove the underline and make the links the same color as my text *eg* mwahahaha

Del
pqwabbit
12-10-1998, 09:18 AM
Then you have those of us that are just lazy

yaya lazy thats us
weer very lazy to do that
it taks to much enerjy
byby