Urls Not Obvious In A Post

[justDAJ]

Could the styling be changed slightly to make URLs more obvious in a post?

see the example:

the wording in single quotes has a link but it's not too obvious

 

[Pete Brindle]

You could format the text yourself to bolden it or underline it, would that help at all?

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

I'll get the styling looked at. Pete's suggestion is a good one though and it's the one I use.

We will see if we can tweak it though as it does make sense to make them a bit more obvious

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

Is this styling better?

 

[MattW]

Is this styling better?

No! It's doing ALL the URLS on the site. You can style specifically the links in the text area, and leave the rest of the site links as they were.

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

Oops - I should really pay more attention.

Right I'll need to try and find out how I fix this.

 

[saltire]

ooh looks like you've fixed everything being underlined which is good

 

[justDAJ]

If you have access to edit the CSS (stylesheet) for the Theme or are able to add custom CSS for the theme, add a line similar to:

.messageText a { border-bottom:1px dotted;}

This will add 'dotted' underline beneath any hyperlinks within the messages of a post (and nowhere else on the forum).

The bit in the { } could be changed to make the text bold, different colour, etc. Shout if you need more info.

 

[MattW]

https://mattwservices.co.uk

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How's this for people? They are now pulling in the favicon for all URLs in posts.

 

[justDAJ]

How's this for people? They are now pulling in the favicon for all URLs in posts.

Unusual. I like it. Assuming others understand it.

What if there is no fav icon?

 

[MattW]

Unusual. I like it. Assuming others understand it.

What if there is no fav icon?

The you get a generic globe as below:

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

That's quite quirky Love it!

 

[saltire]

Yep that's really good ... a little bit different which is always a good thing