--- On Wed, 8/26/09, David Robertson <funpackeds...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 27/08/2009, at 9:02 AM, tommy_til...@arwb.uscourts.gov > wrote: > > > > > Can you or has anyone ever used CSS to indicate > > > that a link would take you > > > outside the current web site? Trying to come up > > > with some way to let the > > > user know they are exiting my site. > > IIRC it adds padding to the <a> on the right-hand > side and adds a > background-image positioned to the right. This is the canonical way of indicating an external link, but it might also help to add information to the title attribute to support non-visual clients. You should also evaluate exactly why you want to indicate this explicitly. Wikipedia is a good example because the vast majority of links are internal and, being an encyclopaedia, the external/internal distinction can be quite significant, and external links may not be obvious. I'm of the opinion that they overuse this technique though - does each and every link under 'external links' really need its own icon indicating it's an external link? Anything's better than opening links in a new window, though :-) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
