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Posted by Chris Jackson on 09/11/07 20:01
On Sep 11, 1:55 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit victoria.wong....@gmail.com:
>
> > I am designing a web page. I would like to differentiate two types of
> > links: those to internal documents, and those hosted at an external
> > location.
>
> If you think it serves a useful purpose (rather than just the page owner's
> own idea of classifying links that way), put something like "(external)" or
> "(ext.)" or maybe <img alt="(external)" title="the preceding link refers to
> a resource external to this site" class="ext" src="ext.gif" width="..."
> height="..."> after each external link and put
> @media print { .ext { display: none; } }
> into your style sheet.
>
> But think first! Will this help users, or just confuse them, or annoy them,
> or be simply irrelevant?
>
> > I have decided to do this by specifying different colors for
> > each type of link.
>
> Wrong idea. A natural one, but wrong. You won't be able to figure out a
> system of colors that works. Remember that you would need at least 3 + 3
> different colors, to maintain the vital distinction between different states
> of links. More info:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/links.html
>
> But if you still "must" do it, you need to add class attributes to the
> external (or internal) links and use CSS.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
use two diff classes - like:
<a href="internal link"><span class="a_internal">internal</span></a>
<a href="external link"><span class="a_external">external</span></a>
..a_internal{font.....}
..a_external{font.....}
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