On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 17:19, Shaun McCance <
shaunm gnome org> 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.
>
