http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/20/please-force-underlining en-us 40 where nothing is sacred <p>Just a quick note to the web designers out there: like many people, I hate link underlining, so I disable it in my browser. This means that if you&#8217;re going to make the color of your links the same as the color of the surrounding text (or nearly so), you should use CSS to force link underlining. Sure, I could enable underlining, but that&#8217;s not my job. If your design <em>requires</em> underlined links, it&#8217;s up to you to make it happen. Luckily, it&#8217;s not hard: </p> <pre><code> a { text-decoration: underline; }</code></pre> <p>added to your site stylesheet does the trick.</p> <p>Quite a few sites fall into the rely-on-the-browser-underlining trap. Notable members of this dubious club include the otherwise excellent <a href="http://economist.com"><em>Economist</em></a> website and, ironically, the &#8220;design and usability blog&#8221; <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/">Signal vs. Noise</a>. I love Rails, but I curse those 37signals guys every time I have to enable link underlining just to read their damn blog.</p> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:50:00 -0700 urn:uuid:1b98a70a-f31a-4d54-9f75-c06ecf03740d Michael Hartl http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/20/please-force-underlining Science & Technology <p>In poetry, the big guys disallow all comments, and talk about it.</p> <p>Who do you think you are, allowing an emotionally unstable commentator?</p> Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:48:14 -0700 urn:uuid:62f62398-d513-43d7-8aad-8c3f32fa4589 http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/20/please-force-underlining#comment-157 <p>the Rails community *is* elitist. get used to it.</p> <p>or vote down if you love pie ;-)</p> Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:39:31 -0700 urn:uuid:de388595-dd91-4f5b-b742-e4f61b6228c4 http://eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/20/please-force-underlining#comment-156