On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Tim Snadden <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 27/08/2009, at 9:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Can you or has anyone ever used CSS to indicate that a link would
> > take you
> > outside the current web site? Trying to come up with some way to let
> > the
> > user know they are exiting my site.
>

 Best example is Wikipedia. Try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets . Look at the bottom of
the intro paragraphs where it says 'RFC 2318'.

IIRC it adds padding to the <a> on the right-hand side and adds a
background-image positioned to the right.


> Further to my original reply...
>
> a[href^='http://'] { /* your rules */  }
>

I think (not sure) that this only works in IE 7 and above. Might want to
test that out in IE 6.
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