Suzanne — Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:03:02 +0000

I use a number of different things, depending on the location of the links. If the links are in a navigation list or bar, then I remove the underlining, for the most part, because it makes the link words much harder to read.

However, within text, I leave some version in there (using either text-decoration or border) because otherwise it disappears. I used to remove the underlines from visited links, but I don't do that anymore.

This is speaking on a personal site, however. For business sites the rules are slightly different, and default underlining is usually the best. Heck, I may even leave off styling the hyperlinks entirely depending on the audience!

jammin — Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:25:53 +0000

i always put blue underlined links, they just make the site look better. no hover effects, just plain links.

Busy — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:09:08 +0000

Just the other week I was teaching my neighbour to to use the internet, it's real hard when you tell them links are clickable and are blue and underlined. Then you go to a site and has no underlined links even on hover. real confusing for a newcomer.

One of my sites I built way back in late 90's I used different color links but at the top of every page I had this color equal a link, this color equals a visited link, i think its still there today.

The visited aspect of the link has been forgotten lately, which does make looking over a big site hard as you don't know where you've been. I'm guilty of this one

Megan — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:18:47 +0000

Just because it's commonly done doesn't mean that it's the best way to do things. I still think that leaving the underlines on is the best way to make it clear to the user what is and is not a link.

pmj7 — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:12:41 +0000

"Seems that removing the underline has become more and more common." Yes, and for the moment I've put underlines back on in my site to be different!!

Peter

Rayna — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:37:55 +0000

How odd.....I wonder how they expect people to find the links on the page that way.....LOL. For clients I typically use the standard underlined links however some have requested bold text links with no underline and in those cases I use the underline on hover. I figure as long as the links are noticably a different color than the plain text it's OK.

Seems that removing the underline has become more and more common.

Megan — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:31:10 +0000

I usually do colour + underline for body links. It really is the standard way of doing things and least likely to confuse the viewer.

The Webmistress — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:50:48 +0000

I definitely agree with Busy, mostly underlined or occasionally a different colour for body links. It really does annoy me when on hover it goes bold or bigger as the page jumps all over the place!!

Renegade — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:56:02 +0000

nav:
bold,
nav-hover:
bold,
underline

body:
bold,
underline,
body-hover:
bold,

... hope that made some sence,

Busy — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:20:17 +0000

Having links the same color as text is very confusing and hard to find.
I prefer to make them different colours and/or underline on/off hover.
It annoys me when people abuse the hover attribute, like making it bold or italic on mouseover which throws the pages layout all out of wack.