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makkax
07-30-2003, 01:43 AM
Greetings from 'down under'!

When my hyperlinks are activated an outline appears & are still there when I click 'back' to the link page. A click on the page body to makes them go away, but can they be stopped from appearing?

With thanks....
makkax
07-30-2003, 07:13 PM
Thanks David,

Well that explains it and I guess one is stuck with it.

One of the links is next to an image and it also gets outlined.
Can that be rectified by...?

Cheers,

Max
makkax
07-30-2003, 07:37 PM
Gosh that was quick. I was just about to disconnect
and...!

Thanks I'll check it out and get back to you soonly.

Cheers again!
Astrolegoboy
07-31-2003, 06:22 PM
Hyperlink properties (ie colors) are controlled in the body tag <body background=" bgcolor=" text=" link=" vlink=" alink="></body>

or by using css classes to set up different display colors for active, hover, visited, etc. Since an internet browser (ie MSIE) will always display links (set format - underline, color change - active, visited, etc) the only thing you can control is the colors.

When you hyperlink an image you can control the hyperlink display properties thru use of the border setting.

Hyperlinked Image without Border:
<a target="_blank" href="http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/index.php?s=">
<img src="http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/ravimages/slogan.gif" width="310" height="46"
alt="Evrsoft Forum" border="0" onMouseOver="window.status=''Evrsoft Web Development Forum';
return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true"></a>

Hyperlinked Image with Border:
<a target="_blank" href="http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/index.php?s=">
<img src="http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/ravimages/slogan.gif" width="310" height="46"
alt="Evrsoft Forum" border="2" onMouseOver="window.status=''Evrsoft Web Development Forum';
return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true"></a>

HTH's
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makkax
07-31-2003, 09:59 PM
Thanks again David,

The <a> tag did the trick!

Bye for now,

Max :)

P.S. The further conversation here is illuminating - thanks all.
Astrolegoboy
08-01-2003, 12:52 AM
Originally posted by dbindel @ 07-30-2003 at 03:47 AM
The border that appears around links when clicked is just your browser's way of telling you which link is "active" - the link you last clicked. It's browser-dependent and can't be controlled using HTML or stylesheets AFAIK.
Originally posted by dbindel @ 07-31-2003 at 10:38 PM
That's not true: you can control just about everything presentation-wise with CSS

You seem to contradict yourself, I was simply pointing out that one could modify how a hyperlink is displayed - from your 1st reply you implied it could not be controlled.

To clarify my statement on set format, I guess I was trying to say that modifying the colors seemed like the only logical hyperlink display modification.

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sirarfalot
08-01-2003, 02:55 PM
hmmm...

David, you look exactly like the lead dude from new found glory...


i know this is off the subject, but you had no forums appropriate :P
sirarfalot
08-02-2003, 01:07 AM
heh