Remove underline link in hyperlinks

Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage] · Oct 5, 2005

Is this page on the web where we can see it?

T.J. Warner · Oct 5, 2005

Hi all,

I'm using FP2003 and noticed something that bothers me. I have a page
where I've removed (I think) the underline for a hyperlink. I wanted it
to appear as "FAQ" instead of "FAQ" underlined. So, I right clicked the
link and changed the font properties to remove the underline. At least,
I think that's how it's done.

Anyway, it looks fine in IE and I thought it looked fine in Firefox.
However, when I look at it in Firefox, VOILA, the underline is there. I
just upgraded to the latest version of Firefox, so I'm not sure if what
I saw (when I thought it was working in Firefox) was from the old version.

I'm not sure if the way I removed the hyperlink is the "accepted" way
and perhaps the reason why the underline appears in Firefox and not IE.

Is there another way of having the links display without the underline?
Or, is the reason that the link is showing up a Firefox issue?

Thanks in advance!

Andrew Murray · Oct 5, 2005

Add a style

<style>
a: link {text-decoration: none}
a: hover {text-decoration: none}
a: visited {text-decoration: none}
a: active {text-decoration: none}
</style>

Murray · Oct 5, 2005

Omit the space between a: and the next word, however -

a:link {...}

T.J. Warner · Oct 5, 2005

Hi!

Thanks for the tip, but I tried this but it didn't work. I put it in
the <HEAD> section and also tried the <BODY> section, but it didn't work
with Firefox. I'm using shared borders with only the section that it
affects in the top portion. I, obviously, made the changes in top.htm

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Murray wrote:
Omit the space between a: and the next word, however -

a:link {...}

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Murray · Oct 5, 2005

Show me what you tried, please.

T.J. Warner · Oct 5, 2005

Murray,

The site isn't up online yet. I can put it online temporarily for you.
Is it OK to email you at the above address?

Thanks...

Murray · Oct 5, 2005

Can you paste the relevant code into a reply?

T.J. Warner · Oct 5, 2005

Sure! Here goes (I did try to put the style tag in the body and head
sections. I left it in the head tag for now) This is the top.htm file.

I'm also noticing a weird thing: The "news" font is set to 11. The
rest is set to 10. I had to change the news font to 11 because, when
viewed, looked smaller than the rest of the text. Can't figure out why
-- but it does. Although it's changed in the top.htm file (which this
is), it reverts back to 10pt on some pages within the site. Why would
that be? Doesn't it get all the top shared content from top.htm?

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252"><title>Shared Top Border</title><meta
name="Microsoft Theme" content="none">
<meta name="Microsoft Border" content="none">
<style>
a:link {text-decoration: none}
a:hover {text-decoration: none}
a:visited {text-decoration: none}
a:active {text-decoration: none}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id="table5" height="130"
style="border-collapse: collapse">
<tr>
<td width="9"> </td>
<td width="138">
<img border="0" src="../images/flag.gif" width="132" height="90"
align="right"></td>
<td> </td>
<td width="678">
<embed width="682" height="141" src="../longflare.swf"
align="absmiddle"><noembed>Install Java Plug-In To View This
File</noembed></td>
<td width="23"> </td>
<td width="131">

<img border="0" src="../images/patch.jpg" width="108" height="122"
align="left"> 
 
 
 </td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse"
width="100%" bgcolor="#000080" id="table6">
<tr>
<td width="164" align="center" bgcolor="#ECECFF"
style="border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium">
Click Below or to
the Right</td>
<td width="79" align="center" style="border-style: none;
border-width: medium">
<a href="../index.htm">
Home</a></td>
<td align="center" style="border-left-style: none;
border-left-width: medium">

<a href="../faq.htm">
F.A.Q.</a></td>
<td align="center" width="104">
<a href="../qol.htm">
Quality of
Life</a></td>
<td align="center" width="104"><a
href="../news.htm">

News</a></td>
<td align="center" width="143">
<a href="../employment.htm">
Employment</a></td>
<td align="center" width="198">
<a href="../mostwanted.htm">
Most
Wanted</a></td>
<td align="center" width="107">
<a href="../contactus.htm">
Contact
Us</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Murray · Oct 5, 2005

Change this -

a:link {text-decoration: none}
a:hover {text-decoration: none}
a:visited {text-decoration: none}
a:active {text-decoration: none}

to this -

a:link {text-decoration: none}
a:visited {text-decoration: none}
a:hover {text-decoration: none}
a:active {text-decoration: none}

(remember LostViagraHaltsAmour)

But, you should not have seen underlines in either event.

Although it's changed in the top.htm file (which this is), it reverts back
to 10pt on some pages within the site. Why would that be? Doesn't it get
all the top shared content from top.htm?

It certainly should. Sorry, I don't have an explanation for this. If the
code says it must be rendered at one size, there is no way for it to sneak
past that, doncha know?

T.J. Warner · Oct 5, 2005

Murray --

Tried it. Same result.

I'm thinking that when Firefox was updated
a few days ago, perhaps for whatever reason, they tweaked the code that
reads this. I thought with 1.0.6, it viewed how I wanted it. With
1.0.7, I noticed it. No biggie either way -- may be they'll fix this later.

I have no idea why the font size in the section looks different either.
Ah well.. it still looks good, just wish I understood why 10pt doesn't
look universal (and there's not even left over code from a previous entry).

Thanks!

Thomas A. Rowe · Oct 5, 2005

You must insert

<style>
a:link {text-decoration: none}
a:hover {text-decoration: none}
a:visited {text-decoration: none}
a:active {text-decoration: none}
</style>

in the head section of each page you want it to apply to, you can not set it in the top.htm file and
have it apply to page that have top.htm included, as FP only includes content that is between the
body tags of the page being included.

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Cheryl D Wise · Oct 7, 2005

The only way to get it to apply to all pages is to put the code in an
external stylesheet and link it to each of your pages.

Save the code to a new blank page called "site.css" in the root of your
website.

There should be no html on the page, just the stylesheet code:

a:link {text-decoration: none}
a:visited {text-decoration: none}
a:hover {text-decoration: none}
a:active {text-decoration: none}

Then use the Format | Stylesheet Links in FrontPage 2003 to add it to each
page or use the Stylesheet linker that Jimco has on his site if you are
using an older version.

Or you can insert the following in the head section of the page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="site.css">

Just make sure that the path is correct if you have pages outside the web
root.

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Remove underline link in hyperlinks

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