[thelist] link borders on a MAC

Maisha Walker maisha at e-vent.org
Mon Sep 22 14:02:34 CDT 2003


Thank you, everyone for your responses!

And thank you, Philippe, this worked!

Can you enlighten me as to:

1. where I would find code like this?  Is there a good resource for CSS code
that you know of?

2. why would you strongly recommend not doing this?  Very curious to
understand the usability issues involved.

Many thanks,
Maisha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Wittenbergh" <phiw at l-c-n.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] link borders on a MAC



On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 07:13  AM, Maisha Walker wrote:

> thanks, jorah!
>
> it is still happenng on the link you gave me below.
>
> I'm concerned that its a browser preference issue that can't be
> controlled by javascript or css.  but i don't know for sure and was
> hoping that someone out there may have encounered a desire to
> eliminate these borders in the past and either successfully fulfilled
> that desire or definitively discovered that it just was not going to
> happen.
>
> the environment is Mac OS 10 using Internet Explorer 5.1.

The 'border' you are seeing is in fact an 'outline', and is an
accessibility feature, very useful for people suing keyboards or
similar input devices to navigate a page.

If it annoys you, you can disable it for your personal use by going
into the preferences of your IE > Keyboard Accessibility.

You can also 'kill' that feature for others
a:focus {outline:none}
But I would **strongly** recommend against doing this.

Philippe

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