link underlined

[roN]

Hi,

I wanna have some links on my page NOT underlined but they are and my
defintion looks like:
A:link {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
color: #F48E3C;
why are they underlined anyway? I set no decoration.
Thank you!

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[Evertjan.]

roN wrote on 06 feb 2006 in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I wanna have some links on my page NOT underlined

text-decoration:none;
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[Harlan Messinger]

roN wrote:

Hi,

I wanna have some links on my page NOT underlined but they are and my
defintion looks like:
A:link {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
color: #F48E3C;
why are they underlined anyway? I set no decoration.

I don't see any mention of text-decoration.

[Stuart Scharf]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

roN wrote:

Hi,

I wanna have some links on my page NOT underlined but they are and my
defintion looks like:
A:link {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
color: #F48E3C;
why are they underlined anyway? I set no decoration.

I don't see any mention of text-decoration.

text-decoration: underline is the default formatting for a link if
nothing is specified. If you don't want it you must turn it off.

[roN]

Stuart Scharf wrote:

Harlan Messinger wrote:

roN wrote:

Hi,

I wanna have some links on my page NOT underlined but they are and my
defintion looks like:
A:link {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: normal;
text-transform: none;
color: #F48E3C;
why are they underlined anyway? I set no decoration.

I don't see any mention of text-decoration.

text-decoration: underline is the default formatting for a link if
nothing is specified. If you don't want it you must turn it off.

yup, got it working, thank you!

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[kchayka]

Stuart Scharf wrote:

text-decoration: underline is the default formatting for a link if
nothing is specified. If you don't want it you must turn it off.

That is not entirely true. If you look at the pref settings for various
browsers, you will find that most let the default be set by the user.

As is happens, the browser default is usually set to underline all
links, but doesn't have to be. I believe Konqueror's default is to only
underline on :hover.

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[Harlan Messinger]

kchayka wrote:

Stuart Scharf wrote:

text-decoration: underline is the default formatting for a link if
nothing is specified. If you don't want it you must turn it off.

That is not entirely true. If you look at the pref settings for various
browsers, you will find that most let the default be set by the user.

As is happens, the browser default is usually set to underline all
links, but doesn't have to be. I believe Konqueror's default is to only
underline on :hover.

Konqueror's designers thought users would most probably want to guess
where the links were? Or are they using some other means of identifying
the links?

[Windsun]

The default for all links is underline unless you tell it not to.

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

Konqueror's designers thought users would most probably want to guess
where the links were? Or are they using some other means of identifying
the links?

I'd guess they had noticed that so many web dee-ziners want to make
their users guess what texts are links, so they made this the default,
on the assumption that dee-ziners do the wrong thing the wrong way,
causing even more damage than they intend to.

Setting link text to fixed font size, using fancy colors, missing the
distinction between unvisited and visited links, and failing to set
background when you set color... and using a really fancy font... there
are so many things you can do wrong. Maybe Konqueror's designers thought
they could persuade at least _some_ web site dee-ziners not to mess up
with links since they are already broken by default. :-)