Thanks all and Ingo - love the sarcasm - well deserved by me violating semantics so brazenly
The reason is "that's what the client wants" I follow standards fairly well in my own little way - but the client and the cms are my nemeses <<<there are ways to > prevent links from _looking_ like links, thereby making it less probable > that users click on them,>>> This is proabbly the best to do in my situation thanks Neal > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> this exists in content >> >> <a href="www.somewhere.com">link</a> > > That's strange (and _quite_ different from a link with > href="http://www.somewhere.com";), but anyway,... > >> if there any way to make that link non-clickable only with css > > No, clickability in the general sense is an inherent property of a link: > a link points at something in a manner that makes it possible to > "follow" the link. Take that away, and it's not a link any more. In the > specific concrete sense (a link can be "followed" by clicking on it), > it's a browser feature. These things belong to functionality, not > presentation. > >> one solution that I do not want to use is putting an absolutely >> positioned clear image over it. > > It does not make the link non-clickable, even though it may make it more > difficult to click on it. > > You can e.g. position a link 999999 pixels to the right, and this will > usually make it so difficult to even notice the existence of the link > that it probably won't be clicked. But it won't really make it > non-clickable, partly due to the CSS Caveats (reasons why your CSS might > not do what you expect, see > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/css-caveats.html ). > > So I think you need to clarify what you really want (and "why" is > generally an essential part of such clarifications, because only then > can others see what you mean). Why would you want to have a link and not > have a link? This might not be a CSS issue at all, but there are ways to > prevent links from _looking_ like links, thereby making it less probable > that users click on them, if that's what you really want. > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
