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CSS Formatting of Links
Jul 30^th, 2016 at 11:17pm

Bam wrote on Jul 29^th, 2016 at 11:10pm:

Turnbull becoming weaker by the day

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It is difficult to exaggerate just how weak Malcolm Turnbull is right now.

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Armchair_Politician wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 8:03am:

Link?

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 9:29am:

So no link? Afraid to show us your source?

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 8:05pm:

philperth2010 wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 10:09am:

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 9:29am:

So no link? Afraid to show us your source?

Click on the heading in Bam's post AP....

"Turnbull becoming weaker by the day"

Uh huh, I did not see that. Thought it was just bold text in a fancy colour, not a link.

I posted an article with a prominent link that was not recognised as such by another poster and that may have caused some misunderstanding. The link formatting is nonstandard and this has caused similar issues in the past. I think the link formatting needs to be changed so it is more easily recognisable as a link.

Instead of undecorated maroon text, the text should be some shade of blue and underlined, so it looks more like links on the majority of web sites.

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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 21852 ACT Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #1 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 8:33am Bam wrote on Jul 30^th, 2016 at 11:17pm: Instead of undecorated maroon text, the text should be some shade of blue and underlined, so it looks more like links on the majority of web sites. How does one actually do that?
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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39030 Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #2 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:06am Link.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 21852 ACT Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #3 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:20am I see you have to modify the link to add colour If you edit your profile and change to "blue flags" template your links are always in blue so no action required.
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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39030 Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #4 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:38am Link. Did that and the underline did not work.
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 21852 ACT Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #5 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 10:08am Aussie wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:38am: Link. Did that and the underline did not work. Tough! Dont be bloody pedantic, if you want to fart around when posting a link to add colour and underlining go for it! I prefer the KISS principle!
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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39030 Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #6 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 10:52am You asked........
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Reply #7 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 11:03am

Aussie wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 10:52am:

You asked........

Fair enough, not your fault Aussie, I was just unsure of how he did this.

After seeing whats involved I feel its too much trouble.

Maybe freediver should write to the YabbForum mod site if he thinks it worth pursuing as a mod to insert the underlining and colour.

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Re: CSS Formatting of Links
Reply #8 - Jul 31^st, 2016 at 12:11pm

Aussie wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:38am:

Link.

Did that and the underline did not work.

The BBcode tags are finicky. Sometimes they need to be applied to the text in a certain order or else formatting can be lost. For example, if you try to make a coloured link by (color)(url)(/url)(/color), the (color) is lost because the (url) tag overrides it.

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that does not work - (color)(url)(/url)(/color).

Example

that works - (url)(color)(/color)(/url).

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49956 At my desk.	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #9 - Aug 1^st, 2016 at 8:34pm Who else has trouble recognising links?
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Aussie Gold Member Online OzPolitic Posts: 39030 Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #10 - Aug 1^st, 2016 at 8:45pm freediver wrote on Aug 1^st, 2016 at 8:34pm: Who else has trouble recognising links? Everyone will unless the word 'link' is used. Link. If I did it like this they may well not know.
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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #11 - Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 5:01pm IF anyone has a problem "formatting stuff" on this Forum ... there happens to be a very comprehensive HELP file, right here. Just look up there under the word HELP. Under YaBBC Reference. You need to go down the page a bit .......
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 21852 ACT Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #12 - Aug 2^nd, 2016 at 5:14pm freediver wrote on Aug 1^st, 2016 at 8:34pm: Who else has trouble recognising links? No trouble here FD Mine all show up in a noticeable blue colour!
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16818 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: CSS Formatting of Links Reply #13 - Aug 7^th, 2016 at 12:26am freediver wrote on Aug 1^st, 2016 at 8:34pm: Who else has trouble recognising links? Not me which is why I asked why somewhere else.
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