Re: Re; How to remove the underline on links

Clarification - Hover works only with IE.

Observation - Be careful when deciding to remove underlining with 
links.  While many consider underling to be visually unattractive and thus 
intrude upon the designer's possible intent for a page (or an entire site), 
most users rely on the visual underline clues to tell them that a link 
exists.   The decision to remove underlines means the designer is going 
against accepted norms for user interaction of a web site, and what users 
have come to expect.

In addition, one must be careful when removing underline links in that the 
removal does not constitute a potential violation of Section 508 laws (US 
laws) with respect to accessibility.  If you are unaware of Section 508 it 
behooves you to learn rather quickly.


At 00:31 2001-10-01 -0700, Ineke van der Maat wrote:
>Hallo Wendy,
>
>Put this in your stylesheet und choose link colours and background colours.
>A hover makes that your links will be underlined when you come with the
>mouse on it.  Put always the a:link and visited link before the hover , else
>these  links will not be influenced by the working of hover, when you want
>your users can see it is a link with clicking the mouse on it.
>
>
>a {
>    text-decoration: none;
>}
>
>a:link {
>    color:
>    background-color: }
>
>a:visited {
>    color:
>background-color:
>}
>
>}
>a:hover {
>    text-decoration: underline;
>    color:
>  background-color:
>  }
>
>  a:active{
>    color:
>  background-color:
>}
>
>greetings
>Ineke van der Maat
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "catwoman" <catwoman(at)enter.net>
>To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 12:22 PM
>Subject: How to Remove the underline on links
>
>
> > Hello All,
> >     I was wondering if someone could tell me how to get rid of the
> > underlining of links? Thanks!
> >
> > Wendy
> >
> >


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