Comments on: Should hyperlinks be underlined? http://blogs.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/06/24/should-hyperlinks-be-underlined/ We Bring Knowledge to You Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:44:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jason Pontius http://blogs.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/06/24/should-hyperlinks-be-underlined/comment-page-1/#comment-2711 Jason Pontius Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:15:11 +0000 http://chisel.middlebury.edu/wordpress/imcbride/?p=57#comment-2711 I think that anytime an *entire element* is the link, an underline's unhelpful. If a news item has a teaser/summary, you might want that to all be linked, but an underline would make it hard to read. Same goes for lists of links, as you note. The <code>p a {text-decoration:underline;}</code> thing is an imperfect but usually dependable way to separate those two things. Links that are congruent with *semantic elements* like list items, news summaries, headlines, etc. usually aren't inside paragraph tags, they're usually fairly easy to identify as links, and they usually look better without underlines. I think that anytime an *entire element* is the link, an underline’s unhelpful. If a news item has a teaser/summary, you might want that to all be linked, but an underline would make it hard to read. Same goes for lists of links, as you note.

The p a {text-decoration:underline;} thing is an imperfect but usually dependable way to separate those two things. Links that are congruent with *semantic elements* like list items, news summaries, headlines, etc. usually aren’t inside paragraph tags, they’re usually fairly easy to identify as links, and they usually look better without underlines.

]]> By: Ian McBride http://blogs.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/06/24/should-hyperlinks-be-underlined/comment-page-1/#comment-2701 Ian McBride Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:13:11 +0000 http://chisel.middlebury.edu/wordpress/imcbride/?p=57#comment-2701 Haha! Good point. They only show up on the main blog page (http://chisel.middlebury.edu/wordpress/imcbride). I guess I've got TWO updates to make to the template. Haha! Good point. They only show up on the main blog page (http://chisel.middlebury.edu/wordpress/imcbride). I guess I’ve got TWO updates to make to the template.

]]> By: Jason Pontius http://blogs.middlebury.edu/lis/2009/06/24/should-hyperlinks-be-underlined/comment-page-1/#comment-2691 Jason Pontius Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:05:28 +0000 http://chisel.middlebury.edu/wordpress/imcbride/?p=57#comment-2691 What hyperlinks on the right? What hyperlinks on the right?

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