[WEB4LIB] Re: underlining on or off on public web stations

Fri Mar 5 10:43:01 EST 1999

To complicate the discussion more, you can add the following lines in
between the <head> </head> statement, in your html files and hide
underlines from the server side. So it is not just "a standard in web
browsers". Your browser has to support css, of course.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
    A  { text-decoration: none; }
-->
</style>

Jian

> 
> At 01:34 PM 3/4/99 -0800, Avi Rappoport wrote:
> 
> >Underlining links is a standard on the web, and something that most 
> >users are thoroughly familiar with.  
> 
> I'd like to correct a bit of terminology here which most people
> in this discussion seem to be using.
> 
> Underlining is a standard in web browsers, not "on the web."  It is a 
> locally-controlled function of the software, not a part of the HTML 
> markup which designs the page.
> 
> If designers would stop using email addresses, file names, and other 
> linkages with underscores in them, then leaving the browser's default 
> setting of underlining links would not be a problem.   However, how many
> of us have copied information incorrectly because we could not see
> the underscore?  And if the same designers would not make links the 
> same color as other text, the problem would not be so apparent.
> 
> Margaret
> 
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