CSS-related questions should probably go to Jonathan.

Seb


2009/5/8 Jaap A. Haitsma <[email protected]>

> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 17:19, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 07:32 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> >> E.g. look at the GNOME buttons on
> >> http://www.gnome.org/friends/thank-you.html
> >> They have a dotted line under the images because the images link to
> >> another page.
> >>
> >> I can of course solve it on that page by putting these images in a
> >> seperate <div> and set custom styling for the <a> links in that <div>,
> >> but I think it would be better to solve it globally. Also the image on
> >> http://www.gnome.org has a dotted line under the image
> >
> > It's not just images.  It's all links.  Looks like somebody
> > decided to put a border-bottom on links.  It's a not-uncommon
> > trick people use to create an underline that doesn't cut off
> > the descenders.
> >
> > Browsers know how to not underline image links (though they
> > do love those image borders).  But they're not going to do
> > anything special when you put a border on the a element.
> > So you have to go to extra trouble to remove the border in
> > cases where you don't want it.
> >
> > Personally, I think it's just visual noise, and we should
> > drop it.
> >
> I agree. Patch attached. With the patch the dotted-line is removed.
> Every link is just has the blueish color and as soon as you hover on
> it you get an underline (not for images of course)
>
> Can I commit this change?
>
> Jaap
>
> Jaap
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