A visitor wrote to ask how she could "remove the underline from links" on her web page. Since she didn't specify the web editor (or perhaps the blog software) that she was using, I will show how this is done in a generic way, with CSS, so that it is useful regardless of software.
You should preferably have some HTML and CSS knowledge before reading this article, otherwise some of the things said here will be difficult to understand. At the very least, you will need to know how to insert CSS and HTML into a web page.
text-decoration Property
The CSS property that handles underlining is text-decoration. By default, this is set to
underline for links. To stop all links from being underlined, add the following rule to your style sheet:
If you only want certain links not to be underlined (such as those in your navigation menu),
but want the rest to appear as they normally do, set the rule only
for the links in that class or id. For example, the navigation menu
created by the free Navigation Menu
Wizard has the following rule to prevent the links on the buttons from being underlined.
The rule only suppresses the underlining of links in items belonging to the #tswcssbuttons list.
It is coded in this very specific manner, on an id that is unlikely to conflict with any that you
may create yourself, so that you can use the menu on your website with peace of mind, knowing that
the rule will not spill over and inadvertantly affect your normal links.
If you only have one link where you want the underlining removed, you can put the rule directly in the
style attribute of that link.
The above example code will result in a link that looks like this: thesitewizard.com. As you can see, removing the text decoration only stops it from being underlined. All the other styles affecting the link, such as its colour ("color" if you use a different variant of English), remain the same.
This rule is supported by all modern browsers. In fact, it will probably even work in many obsolete ones, including the extinct (or so I hope) Internet Explorer 6.
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