[RESOLVED] Remove hyperlink colour

[mattm591]

Is there a way to use a CSS tag to remove colour from a hyperlink.

I don't want hyperlinks displayed in a certain colour, just in the same colour as all the rest of the text in that line so is there a way to set it to not apply any colour formatting to a hyperlink?

Thanks,
Matt

[NogDog]

Just use "inherit" as the color value, e.g.:

a { color: inherit; }

[mattm591]

Thanks a lot. That worked great

[bradgrafelman]

Don't forget to mark the thread resolved.

[mattm591]

I will, but I have since discovered a problem with this solution. It doesn't seem to work in IE. Any ideas about this?

[bradgrafelman]

Make your links look like your normal font:

font, a:link {
    color: #000000;
}

[mattm591]

bradgrafelman wrote:

Make your links look like your normal font:

font, a:link {
    color: #000000;
}

yes but the problem is I use a variety of colours in different sections of each page so I can't do that

[bradgrafelman]

Well, due to IE's poor support of CSS, you'll have to explicity define colors for each section. Example:

#section1, #section1 a:link {
    color: #112233;
}
#section2, #section2 a:link {
    color: #445566;
}

<div id="section1">
    Here is a <a href="http://google.com">link</a>...
</div>
<div id="section2">
    <a href="http://yahoo.com">This</a> is another link, though it matches the color of the rest of this section.
</div>

[mattm591]

Ok then. Thanks for the help

[NogDog]

Stupid IE.... 🙁

It seemed like such an obvious solution, and I gave it a quick check in FF just to make sure, and forgot to check if IE was smart enough to do it, too. You'd think by now I'd know better. :rolleyes:

[bradgrafelman]

NogDog wrote:

You'd think by now I'd know better.

Actually, maybe you do know better. You know to code for a web-standards-aware browser such as FireFox.

I'd say make the site look great in FF, and put one of those nifty "Get FireFox" buttons in the footer of your pages! 😉

[Weedpacket]

NogDog wrote:

You'd think by now I'd know better.

You'd think by now IE would know better.

What's the betting that during IE7's development there were multilevel multi-session meetings within Microsoft in which everyone with any input to the project (and anyone who could claim to be affected by any decisions that might be made) could (and had to) discuss, argue, and agree on "what parts of the CSS specification should we support?" on a clause-by-clause basis? With a full review process (and round of meetings) for every decision made? I mean, something (apart from wanting to hold off and release it as part of Vista) had to intervene to make it take as long as it did.

[NogDog]

My take on it is that IE is not a revenue-producing product, thus there is no incentive for M$ to invest in it. If Windows/Vista sales were likely to be impacted in any way by IE's lack of standards compliance, then you can be pretty sure they would have worked on it. But since I can't think of the last time (or any time) I ever heard someone say they based their decision on which OS to buy due to which browser came bundled with it, I unfortunately don't see where M$ has any real financial reason to fix it. (If only those anti-trust suits in the '90s had actually succeeded in completely separating the browser from the OS.)

[Weedpacket]

But it is odd that Microsoft changed their mind about not having IE7 for XP the instance Firefox 1.0 was released.

But no, let's not go that way again. At least, not in this thread 🙂