Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Rob Wilmshurst wrote: > [...] >> I personally wouldn't do this though; as part of the browser's default >> behaviour the user is expecting it. That outline indicates that the >> link is currently active. It may be annoying when clicking, but if one >> is tabbing through the document then it's the only thing to show what's >> currently in focus. [...] >> > I couldn't agree more. > Hi Jean-Claude, Nor can I: it is a real good accessibility feature. People who don't have the abilities to use a mouse, can use the Tab key to track the links in a page. The outline dots are the "mouse pointer" for them: the only way to see on which link they are, and where they have to click (= Enter key) to visit the link.
One thing you can do to get a less striking presentation, is to style the outline dots just around the img, and not with a bottom margin in the text area, as in your testpage. The bottom margin is caused by the fact that in general an image is placed vertically on the same height as the letters of the line in question, but also with adding the needed space for characters with something under the line, like p,y or j. You can check this (in not-IE) by enlarging the font-size: the bottom distance of the dotted outline border will grow and shrink according to the scaling factor. To get rid of this, you can: 1. Add a vertical position for the images in the links: * screenshot with adapted css <http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/images/screenshot-studiomaci.png> Then the outline is just around the img. - But with dark images it is hard to see. 2. Alternative (better accessible) is in your case to extend the dotted outline to the whole clicking area. VoilĂ : * testpage <http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/test-tab-dancing.htm> 3. An other alternative for better visibility of the outline dots is to style the img with a 1px white border (or 1px padding with white background-color). Then there is some distance between img and dots, whatever the colors of the img are. CSS is giving choices! :-) Greetings, francky btw: In the meantime I've set the font-size in em instead of in the fixed px unit. Now also scalable for IE-visitors who like/need to enlarge the fonts. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/