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Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
Brainiac
February 20, 2012
Question

Links in Text Hard to See

  • February 20, 2012
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Just want to point out that inline links in text are difficult to see.  To work around it, I usually post links like this:

...instead of...

  • Click here to go to Adobe's site.

But not everyone thinks of doing this.  I just missed a link in someone's post because dark blue text is not that obvious amongst black text, especially if there are few letters.

Please fix the forum software so that links in the text are underlined.

Note also that while editing the links DO have underlines.  WYSINWYG

-Noel

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    rescueme911
    New Participant
    February 28, 2012

    Hello Noel Carboni

    I am a New in the forums so i don't selected the proper catergory for getting to me help of this question because my friend is told me. But i want to know whether this statement is correct and also please explain me in brief. 

    Thanks @ Regards,

    rescueme911

    Noel Carboni
    Noel CarboniAuthor
    Brainiac
    February 29, 2012

    These forums are for discussing Adobe products and forums, not Microsoft operating systems.

    However, you can find some information on what you're asking about here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0ce4df22-2dbc-48fc-9c16-b721ae85f857

    -Noel

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    rescueme911
    New Participant
    February 28, 2012

    Know the difference between symbolic and hard links as well as how to create, view and remove both types of links. In addition, be able to temporarily resolve a low disk space issue using a symbolic link.

    Thanks @ rescueme911  

    Noel Carboni
    Noel CarboniAuthor
    Brainiac
    February 28, 2012

    rescueme911 wrote:

    Know the difference between symbolic and hard links as well as how to create, view and remove both types of links. In addition, be able to temporarily resolve a low disk space issue using a symbolic link.

    I can't quite determine whether you're asking a question here...  Or making a statement...  Or even spamming.

    In this thread we're discussing web page links on the forum.

    -Noel

    Noel Carboni
    Noel CarboniAuthor
    Brainiac
    February 26, 2012

    Thanks for the supportive feedback, guys.  Bolding the link is a good idea.

    Just wondering, along those same lines, can a link be underlined manually with the U control?  That might serve as another form of workaround.

    Just a test:  Click here to find out about super great products:  http://www.adobe.com

    Edit:  Nope.  I manually underlined the above links.  No joy.

    -Noel

    John Waller
    John Waller
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2012

    Manual underlining won't work.

    Any underlining is trumped by the CSS applied to all links which is always text-decoration: none; (= no underline).

    Noel Carboni
    Noel CarboniAuthor
    Brainiac
    February 26, 2012

    A funny thing...  Looking at this page with our iPad, I see the underlines in the links I posted just above, but not in my original post.  Somehow Safari on the iPad is rendering that manual underlining.

    Edit:  Safari on PC shows the underlines too...

    IE does not....

    -Noel

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    February 22, 2012

    I read once that the only way to get rid of spam and the like is to kill everyone that falls for it.

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    February 22, 2012

    years ago it was the norm that links were underlined. Don't remember when that was stopped.

    When I post links I always copy the entire link. Because I too find just choosing a word and making it a link is easily missed.If your going to do that its should be in a Bolded Green or Red something obvious.

    If it’s a Long link I start on a new line with the link. On a Mac though even if a link is so long it extends to two line the full link is retained. On a PC if a link extend to point its broken only the first line remains hot and you have to put the wo together.

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    February 22, 2012

    Phillip,

    You will get my vote to bring back the "underline" for embedded links too.

    One option for long URL's, is a service like TinyURL, but then there have been spammers, who have abused such, so not a perfect answer.

    Hunt

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    February 22, 2012

    That's why I don't use Tiny URL that much. Or reluctant to open such.

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    February 21, 2012

    How do you know, Claudio?

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Brainiac
    February 21, 2012

    Well, there are some people who say "thank you for your link". Not the only hint that I missed one, by the way...

    John Waller
    John Waller
    Community Expert
    February 21, 2012

    Noel Carboni wrote:

    I just missed a link in someone's post because dark blue text is not that obvious amongst black text, especially if there are few letters.

    Please fix the forum software so that links in the text are underlined.

    Agreed. Thanks for raising it, Noel.

    I occasionally miss links in posts too esp. when people post long paragraphs and bury a link in the middle of it trying to explain what they're describing.

    Please add the "text-decoration:underline;" CSS attribute to all links and increase the color contrast between link text and regular text.

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    Anonymous
    February 21, 2012

    I agree.  Sometimes the link address is very long so just listing it makes the message messy and confusing. 

    Guess we can make the link name bold and in CAPS, but something not everyone will remember.

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    February 21, 2012

    Curt,

    That is how I post in-line links - BOLD and ALL-CAPS. Still, a few readers miss those.

    Hunt

    Jacob Bugge
    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    February 21, 2012

    I agree.

    I always create such inline links manually, using a snippet of HTML.

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