Certainly could have, but was mainly concerned with states on links that have an On a high level, one could consider the anchor element as “action” element – as denoted by the So, yeah, it could look like a button – just as long as it facilitates the action.In addition to MHLut, John Pisello and xfq I would emphasize the importance of the :focus style as essential for Keyboard users. Set different list item markers for ordered lists 2. Save Your Code. By default, this is set to underline for links. Keyboard users “focus” on them, and it’s important that those users can distinguish when a link has focus. If you have important information to share, please Now, let’s use the state-altering powers we learned in the last section to make our faux-button more interactive. There are three additional states of a link that are worth considering anytime we change the default style of links:If you don’t do it in this order (imagine, say, your Here is the same link we have been looking at. Adding this code to a CSS file instead of in the HTML head section makes all web pages that use the CSS file to set links with no underline. They are underlined. Then, click on the link, but leave your mouse button clicked down for a little bit to see how the active style changes the color of the link to black. Of course it makes sense. The text-decoration Property. Ahhmm. We’re pretty used to the standard black arrow:We can change the arrow to a hand pointer on it’s hover (Whew, that’s much nicer! Now, we have a pretty fancy link that looks like a button with proper interactive cues.We’ve covered quite a bit of ground here, but it merely scratches the surface of how we can control the style of links. Set an image as the list item marker 4.

There are CSS variations that all have a use and reason – I’m not 100% sold here yet. The web was founded on links. For this reason, if you remove the underline, make sure to change the link color to something different than all other text, so it stands out clearly to the user.To make all of the links on your web page not have underlines, configure the Adding this code to a CSS file instead of in the HTML head section makes all web pages that use the CSS file to set links with no underline.If you want only one link not to be underlined on your web page, you can create a link similar to the code below. Whatever the reason, CSS lets us style links just we can any other element. Touch is mentioned at the top and these basics largely apply in both cases, with exception to Just a reminder that not everyone “hovers” on links. *Drops the mic

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is used to format the layout of a webpage. All we need to do is target the Want to use a different font, change the color, remove the underline and make it all uppercase? That’s a link in it’s purest form.But what if we want to change things up a bit? The web was founded on links. Here’s our link using those techniques:Great! See the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-2.0): The related posts above were algorithmically generated and displayed here without any load on my server at all, Links in HTML even look different from regular text without any CSS styling at all. For example, let’s create a button with some depth that appears to get pressed when it’s active and pop back up when the click is done.We’ve gone into pretty great depth on style links, but there is one more component to them that we cannot ignore: the cursor.The cursor indicates the position of the mouse on the screen. First, try hovering your mouse on top of it without clicking and notice that it becomes underlined. Finally, let up on the mouse button and the link should turn purple before it’s technically been visited.Links seem like a simple concept, but boy do they have a lot going on—and CSS gives us some incredible power to customize the experience!Like other HTML elements, CSS can add background colors and padding to links that allow us to create the appearance of a button.

But why stop there? We’ll make the button dark gray on hover, black on active, and light gray on visit:Styling a link as a button and taking advantage of the states allows us to make some pretty cool effects. no-referrer no-referrer-when-downgrade origin origin-when-cross-origin unsafe-url: Specifies which referrer to use when fetching the resource: rel: alternate author dns-prefetch help icon license next pingback preconnect prefetch preload prerender prev search stylesheet: Required. Let’s look at a few other ways we can style links to complete the experience.Links have different states, meaning they adapt when we interact with them on a webpage. Perhaps blue doesn’t work with your website’s design.

The idea that we can click/tap a link and navigate from one web page to another is how surfin’ the web become a household phrase.. The idea that we can click/tap a link and navigate from one web page to another is how Links in HTML even look different from regular text without any CSS styling at all.They are blue (purple if visited). Just style it as an inline link!