[thelist] Removing link colors

Steve Clason steve at clason.org
Sat Mar 26 21:06:11 CST 2005


On 3/26/2005 7:24 PM Chris Kavanagh wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I'd like to make the links on my page have no special colour.  That is, 
> the user should have no way of knowing the text is a link.  I can see 
> the veins pulsing angrily in necks of the many excellent usability 
> specialists on this list at that statement, so I'll quickly reassure you 
> guys that it's for an intranet app, both users will be trained, and 
> believe me, this solution is better design.

You'll just have to explicitely set styles on each pseudo-element to 
match the surrounding text:

a:link{color:#000;text-decoration:none}/*assuming black text*/
a:visited{color:#000;text-decoration:none}
a:hover{color:#000;text-decoration:none}
a:active{color:#000;text-decoration:none}
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Steve Clason
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