underline links in posts?

[kenc]

This is probably a minor issue, but is it a simple flip of the switch to underline links in posts? The bright blue on un-clicked links is fine, but as soon as I click the links, the grey(?) text is hard for me to see. I'm color blind, which makes the problem worse. The links do underline when you mouse over, but that's still like feeling around in the dark. I've tried to change my browser settings, but UBB seems to override my choices. Thanks. test url

[kenc]

Before this falls off to page 2, I thought I'd kick it back up to the top. Jason?

[JLester]

I know that is a new feature, I'm not sure how the software is doing it. I'll need to look through the settings and see if it is an option.

Jason

[Bryan Brenneman]

For what it's worth, you may want to select your style with your own style sheet. I have only started to play around with this, but I can make the links any color I want on this page with IE5. To do so, copy the lines below Everything between the two lines of dashes), paste them into Notepad and save as whatever.css Save the file where ever you'd like. Then while in IE, go to Tools, internet options, accessibilty. Say format documents using my style sheet. Browse to where you just save the file and selct it. Hit ok, apply, ok. Then all links will be the colors YOU want them. Here is a good place to get the RGB numbers. You can also change other things in the style sheet, font sizes, font face, body color, etc.. You can probably change the way the links are only underlined during hover, but I didn't figure out how to do that yet. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

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a:link
{
color: rgb(0, 0, 205);
}
a:visited
{
color: rgb(0, 0, 205);
}
a:active
{
color: rgb(204, 153, 0);
}
body
{
font-family: Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);
color: rgb(0, 51, 102);
}
table
{
table-border-color-light: rgb(204, 153, 255);
table-border-color-dark: rgb(204, 0, 204);
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
font-family: Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica;
}
h1
{
color: rgb(0, 51, 102);
}
h2
{
color: rgb(51, 0, 153);
}
h3
{
color: rgb(204, 0, 153);
}
h4
{
color: rgb(0, 51, 102);
}
h5
{
color: rgb(51, 0, 153);
}
h6
{
color: rgb(204, 0, 153);
}

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Cheers,
Bryan

[kenc]

Many thanks Jason. That did it. And Bryan, I now have chartreuse links, thanks [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img].

[H ED S]

Kenc Hi,

TINK posted and it works on my Microsoft Explorer and his Logitech wirelerless wheel mouses. ( you have to have the wheel type mouse)

What this does is enlarge the text from where you have it set. At least two times.
What you do is hold down on the ( control button) on your keyboard and mash the wheel on your mouse. Your display will stay this way until you repeat the steps above. Mine goes from where I have my text set to large to, to smaller , and to where I have it set.

I wear glasses and this helps me a good bit.

Another tip that NW4YR had in a post that is neat and has been added to the new 6.0 UBB update is when posting a reply the box below where you click on to ADD REPLY is a scroll box of the article you are replying to it. That's handy to [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img].

I had not noticed because all I saw in it was a banner add, but if you scroll it up it comes. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Hope this helps some and take care [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[mhardin]

Jason:

Thanks, the underline makes the links much more visible.

Mike

[kenc]

Ed, thanks for the tips, I remember reading the rat tricks posts too and now use the zoomer quite often. I'm just color blind though, not blind blind. I still have 50 years before that happens [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]! Unless staring at this site all day gets me there sooner. Thanks again.

[H ED S]

kenc I am also partially color blind in the purple range. I wear glases to, so I need all the help I can get. Not only on the eyes [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] .
There is an old saying that goes like this. "when you reach forty your get up and go has got up and went!!!" There is more truth to this than I would like to admit.

More on this subject is you know you have reached dirty old man status when You go by a chair and allways flop down, when you get out of the chair you have to grunt. Your is turning to silver, you can carry your teeth in your pocket, The lead in your pencil has turned into jello, and on and on [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] .

Hmmmmmm I resemble that [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] .

[mhardin]

What happened to the underlined links? The underlines disappeared this evening.

Mike

[kenc]

mh, I see underlines and I'm posting just a few minutes after you. Maybe you are underlined-blind [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]? Or maybe your browser settings override UBB? If you have IE, go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, then scroll down to Underline Links and choose "always." That might do it, at least for 30 minutes.

[mhardin]

kenc:

Thanks for the tip, it worked. I don't know why the underlines quit working, they just stopped in the middle of this session. I have not edited my settings. I did reboot the machine before posting. 'puters are strange animals!

Mike

[Bryan Brenneman]

Glad to hear everything is OK again. I did figure out how to change the appearance of links as far as underlining and so forth as long as the web page doesn't declare it's own style. It is controlled by text decoration property.
There are 5 possible values. It seems as though not all of these work in every browser.
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>none
<LI>underline
<LI>overline
<LI>line-through
<LI>blink[/list] Also note that color can be declared by name, rgb, or hex. Well, at least they can in IE.
Try out this cascading sheet.

a:link
{color: rgb(0, 0, 205); text-decoration: underline;}

a:visited
{color: chocolate; text-decoration: overline;}

a:active
{color: #7FFF00; text-decoration: none;}


Always something new to learn, [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] and something to play around with. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]