> >>horizontally, so long lines don't cause an overflow; avoid underline for >>links (use border-bottom on hover instead, if at all); spruce up the > > I want links to be underlined _and_ coloured, I don not want to guess > what could be a link.
Yes, unless there is a strong contrast between the text colour and the link colour, this is a problem with many sites, especially, as Petko notes, when the visited colour is not clearly different. What is your view of sites where the link border-bottom is dotted? It makes links more visible, but is less intrusive than a solid rule. The dotted rule can turn solid on mouseover, of course. > > BTW: What's the benefit of "border-bottom" (besides different color)? Underline passes through the letter descenders and makes the words slightly less readable -- we recognise words in part by the word shape and underline can obscure this to a (small) degree. The border-bottom option puts a rule slightly below the descenders. This is a practice borrowed from print publishing, whereas underlining is carried over from the manual typewriter. My understanding (and I am not certain of this) is that mechanical constraints in a typewriter meant the underline physically could not print below the descenders, unless you moved the carriage up slightly. JR -- John Rankin _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
