RedUser Board Hyperlinks

[Jesse Wendel]

Moderators, Gods of RedUser, Powers that Be, hear my Prayer:

Can you please make Hyperlinks so they show up as Blue Underlined in normal text, rather than you have to pass your mouse over them before you see that they are underlinded?

Normal convention is a hyperlink displays automatically with a Blue Underline. That way, anyone reading the text can see there is a hyperlink, and they can choose to click on it or not.

The way you currently have the Board set up, there may be hyperlinks all over the place, but we never know because the only way to find out is to wave your mouse over every bit of text and see if one shows up... and there is no way I or most people are going to do that.

Thus my request... please change hyperlinks to standard default. Have them display just like on FireFox or IE: Blue Underline in the text, so that they are visible at all times, not just when one happens to wave one's mouse near them.

Thank you Powers that Be.

Jesse Wendel

[Martin Drew]

I agree. This request has been put before just after the Reduser forum started up and I don't think any of the forum mods commented at the time. I think it is a case of style over functionality and it does irritate. Whenever I put links in threads I try to remember to put an underscore in manually and also change the weight to bold and change the colour too though I don't use blue, it doesn't read well against the dark grey background. Personally I favour a lighter grey so the link looks like this. It might be worth putting a poll together to see who else thinks more visible hyperlinks would be worthwhile

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[dalemccready]

good idea. thirded.

[Desert Rune]

I use the tags... shouldn't have to, but... *shrugs*

[Dominique Grenier]

Personally I favour a lighter grey so the link looks like this. It might be worth putting a poll together to see who else thinks more visible hyperlinks would be worthwhile

I agree, bold underlined gray still stay within the site design while at the same time allowing for a better overall experience. You get my vote on this!

[Brook Willard]

I've gotten in a habit of adding a bit of underline code to my links. It's a workaround, but it works.

[Stephen Gentle]

I just do an underline, but it would be nice if Jarred just added text-decoration: underline; in a:link in the stylesheet.

It can be very confusing sometimes...

[PaulClements]

All that needs to be changed is the php header used on each page.

Look for:

a:link, body_alink
{
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited, body_avisited
{
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}

And change to:

a:link, body_alink
{
color: #CCCCCC;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited, body_avisited
{
color: #CCCCCC;
text-decoration: underline;
}


It'd take about two minutes to change and would be very useful, I've often thought this too.

[Jesse Wendel]

Brook,

It seems Paul may have given us a fix.

Would you ask Jarred please -- when he has a moment -- to implement?

Thanks much,
Jesse Wendel

[Adrian T.]

Jarred, instead of hacking the styles directly, I would advise you to use the vBulletin CSS Editor:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/stylemanager_css
Simply set all three "Text Decoration" fields to "underline".

[PaulClements]

I've never used vbulletin and figured the header had already been hacked since usually the style would be contained in an external file rather than reloading it on every single page. If that's how vbulletin handles the css then of course it'd be the best thing to use to edit it though.