Re: Images that are part of the content <div> have an underline. How to remove this

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Is Jonathan reading this list?

Jaap

2009/5/8 Sébastien Nicouleaud <sebastien nicouleaud gmail com>:
> CSS-related questions should probably go to Jonathan.
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> Seb
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> 2009/5/8 Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>
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>> 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.
>> >
>> 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
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