Invisible Links

[Doc Watson]

I've been noticing that when I make a link live in a post that it is not very well contrasted to the surrounding text and thus is difficult to find and use unless you accidentally mouse over the link.

Is there a way to modify the Lounge code to make these links stand out more prominently ?? It would be ever so helpful to the visually challenged amongst us.

[HansV]

In the default prosilver skin, links in posts are blue and underlined. In the other skins, they aren't underlined until you pass the mouse over them.

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[Samantha]

In the Rainbow Pearl skin the link isn't underlined, but it does appear in a contrasting color (white instead of green on the dark blue background)

[Bigaldoc]

Yoo-Hoo, Mikey... Do you think you could at least change the Subsilver2 if not all five? I have the same trouble and one might notice that in a lot of my posts I've been manually underlining mine since Rainbow is the only other one I checked where I saw the color contrast.

(PS I have a hard time getting used to the avatars and stuff on the right!)

[mwolfman]

I will look into it.

[Bigaldoc]

THANK YOU when and if you get time. Sheesh, I know you're busy...

[mwolfman]

Hows that? Eileen's Lounge

[viking33]

Hows that? Eileen's Lounge

Right on. Mike. Rainbow

[Bigaldoc]

Hows that? Eileen's Lounge

Not yet in Subsilver 2...

[mwolfman]

Al, I see it in subsilver2...

[HansV]

Mike, this is what I see in subsilver2 (I did see the underline a while ago, but it has disappeared again):

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[mwolfman]

Weird, must be a cache thing.

[Leif]

Weird, must be a cache thing.

Or a browser thing...

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[IanWilson]

Weird, must be a cache thing.

Or a browser thing...

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Ian

[mwolfman]

My last post, with the attachment is in firefox 3.5.8 on OSX.

[Leif]

I'm on Firefox 6 on XP

[StuartR]

My last post, with the attachment is in firefox 3.5.8 on OSX.

Something has definitely changed this morning.

An hour ago I could see the underlining in IE8, but not in Firefox 3.6.
Now I don't get the underlining in either!
(Tested on Vista SP2 and Windows 7)

[Leif]

I've just noticed - the link in Doc's signature shows with the underline:

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<a linkindex="27" href="http://www.namesnframes.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="postlink">www.namesnframes.net</a></div>

<a linkindex="96" href="http://www.eileenslounge.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="postlink">Eileen's Lounge</a></div>

What's the 'linkindex' number mean?

[stuck]

I'm on FF 3.5.8 + subsilver2 and Mike's tweak works a treat, links are underlined.

Ken
edit: OS is Win 2k patched to the eyeballs

[Bigaldoc]

This is REALLY strange. When I got up this morning and started reading this thread again, I didn't see the underline yet in subsilver. So, I closed my browser, emptied its cache and restarted.

I'm running Fx 3.5.8 in XP and still don't see the underline... (nor do I see it in IE8)