css for anchor tag without href

Hi,

I have a document with lots of <a> tags that wrap phrases to make them
anchors only (no href attribute). When I display the document, they
do not have underline or color in the browser. Is there a way to
style these tags with css?

Andy

In article
<4b058073-dafb-4a1a-a610-74d273f94efc (AT) z24g2000yqb (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
Andy <p7eregex (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I have a document with lots of <a> tags that wrap phrases to make them
anchors only (no href attribute). When I display the document, they
do not have underline or color in the browser. Is there a way to
style these tags with css?

a {text-decoration: underline; color: red; background: white;}
a:link {text-decoration: none; color: blue; background: white;}

<a name="here">here</a><br>
<a href="example.com">example.com</a>

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:23:51 +1000, dorayme wrote:

In article
4b058073-dafb-4a1a-a610-74d273f94efc...oglegroups.com>,
Andy <p7eregex (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I have a document with lots of <a> tags that wrap phrases to make them
anchors only (no href attribute). When I display the document, they
do not have underline or color in the browser. Is there a way to
style these tags with css?


a {text-decoration: underline; color: red; background: white;}
a:link {text-decoration: none; color: blue; background: white;}

a name="here">here</a><br
a href="example.com">example.com</a

Yes, but wait a minute: Is the OP really trying to make non-links look like
links (just because he used an <a> element)? Or am I just too tired to
think clearly?

The code example above makes the real links look like blue regular text,
and the non-link anchors look like red links. I think I won't want to visit
that page.

Or maybe I'm just tired.

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Andy probably doesn't want me to visit anyway.

On 28 Sep, 22:23, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

a name="here">here</a

Or even
<a id="here">here</a>

There seems little reason to preserve use of the name attribute here,
even in <a>

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:23:51 +1000, dorayme wrote:

In article
4b058073-dafb-4a1a-a610-74d273f94efc...oglegroups.com>,
Andy <p7eregex (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I have a document with lots of <a> tags that wrap phrases to make
them anchors only (no href attribute). When I display the document,
they do not have underline or color in the browser. Is there a way
to style these tags with css?


a {text-decoration: underline; color: red; background: white;}
a:link {text-decoration: none; color: blue; background: white;}

a name="here">here</a><br
a href="example.com">example.com</a

Yes, but wait a minute: Is the OP really trying to make non-links look
like links (just because he used an <a> element)? Or am I just too
tired to think clearly?

The code example above makes the real links look like blue regular
text, and the non-link anchors look like red links. I think I won't
want to visit that page.

Or maybe I'm just tired.

I can see where that might be kind of useful. If you wanted to
distinguish between internal and external links, and provide a
"bookmark" so a user could clearly tell where an internal link goes.

Here's a sample:
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/usenet/anchors.html

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Adrienne Boswell wrote:

I can see where that might be kind of useful. If you wanted to
distinguish between internal and external links, and provide a
"bookmark" so a user could clearly tell where an internal link goes.

Here's a sample:
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/usenet/anchors.html

Internal vs. external links is really a different issue (and awkward, since
there's really no other working way to distinguish between them except via
classes).

Indicating "bookmarks" would be useful, but doing it statically with a[name]
(and/or a[id] or *[id]) isn't particularly useful. Little does it help to
see all the possible destinations for links, when the user would really need
to isolate the particular destination he just jumped to. But there's no such
way in CSS.

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Adrienne Boswell wrote:

I can see where that might be kind of useful. If you wanted to
distinguish between internal and external links, and provide a
"bookmark" so a user could clearly tell where an internal link goes.

Here's a sample:
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/usenet/anchors.html

Internal vs. external links is really a different issue (and awkward,
since there's really no other working way to distinguish between them
except via classes).

Indicating "bookmarks" would be useful, but doing it statically with
a[name] (and/or a[id] or *[id]) isn't particularly useful. Little does
it help to see all the possible destinations for links, when the user
would really need to isolate the particular destination he just jumped
to. But there's no such way in CSS.

I agree with you, but it would be kind of nice to see "bookmarks".
Opera has a a scrolling thingy, but it doesn't work the way it should.

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Adrienne Boswell kirjoitti:

I agree with you, but it would be kind of nice to see "bookmarks".
Opera has a a scrolling thingy, but it doesn't work the way it should.

[OT]

I use an bookmarklet for that, mainly to facilitate linking to anchors
in my own pages. I think I modified mine from:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#named_anchors

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