Link underlining - how to turn off?

Question: Is table page-formatting permitted on this
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http://OakRoadSystems.com/

ha, gotcha

(revenge for sarcastic comment)

Mason C

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Mason A. Clark wrote:

[ various stuff, including ]

Mason C loser I'll do it my way.

If your opinion of usenet is so low, I guess you'd have nothing
against being put into the killfile. As one sows, so shall one reap.

bye now.

Mason A. Clark wrote:

Mason A. Clark wrote:


I have a page with many links. Browsers like
to underline the links -- result is ugly.

Is there any (CSS?) way to prevent underlining?

Yes. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#propdef-text-decoration



(By the way, I decry the common practice
of making links hard to see -- at least
color them.)


Ha! I got slammed for the underlines, then I got
slammed for thinking of eliminating them.

Mason C loser I'll do it my way.

If you think I slammed you, then you are way too thin skinned for
usenet. And if you can't take a little constuctive criticism and learn
from it, you've no business creating web pages at all. Don't bother
replying as I probably won't see it. *plonk*

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"Mason A. Clark" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Ha! I got slammed for the underlines, then I got
slammed for thinking of eliminating them.

Whoever "slammed" you for having underlined links has no idea of how
to do a user interface. Their opinion is about a worthwhile as that
of someone who tells you to write your PIN on your ATM card.

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:02:27 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown (AT) fastmail (DOT) fm>
wrote:

"Mason A. Clark" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
Ha! I got slammed for the underlines, then I got
slammed for thinking of eliminating them.

Whoever "slammed" you for having underlined links has no idea of how
to do a user interface. Their opinion is about a worthwhile as that
of someone who tells you to write your PIN on your ATM card.

Thanks. I'm reassured that underline is ok, good in fact.

I was amazed at the number of web sites that
have "hidden" links to be searched for using the
mouse as a mine detector.

Also amazed at the humourless thin skins on this css site.

Mason C table-user in the css killfiles

for id only: http://masonc.home.netcom.com

Mason A. Clark <masoncNOT (AT) THISix (DOT) netcom.comQQQ> wrote:

I was amazed at the number of web sites that
have "hidden" links to be searched for using the
mouse as a mine detector.

Most web sites have poor usability, terrible accessibility, broken tag-soup
markup, etc.

Most of the regulars in CIWAS try to do better.

Also amazed at the humourless thin skins on this css site.

CSS site? What CSS site? This is a USENET discussion group.
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