Make links more obvious, please
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Since our groupsite has dark green as its secondary color, links do not stand out in posts, and so many members ask for a link that is already there. They simply don't see it. So I request the following:
1. Please make it default that websites posted within a topic become a link automatically.
2. Please make links underlined by default, so that they are more obvious.
Maybe it's a bug, but even though it shows we have the option to have underlined links, and they show up that way in the Basic Editor, once you submit the post, the underline does not show up. In fact, I see no difference at all when I create three different style links. They all are Normal (hover underline).
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Agree. Seeing the same on my site. The group appearance settings indicate the hyperlinks will be in blue and underlined, but when I put a hyperlink on the summary page welcome module, it only gets the underline when I hover over it. Tried FF 3.0 and IE 6 with same results. I did try to override the site default, as Liza mentions, but no matter what setting I choose when editing the welcome message, it is always the same result.
I, too, would like that hyperlinks or email addresses put into a discussion post would be "smart" automagically, sort of like it is with Microsoft products and Google pages, I think. It is not intuitive to our users to paste a URL and then highlight it, click on link, and paste the url into the link again. And it is not obvious to our users when links are hyperlinked because of the lack of the "standard" underlining.
Tip for over-riding default link style:
The easiest work-around is to highlight the linked text then click on the style to apply (bold, underline, color) and save. And if you are comfortable working with in the HTML source tab and writing code, you can simply add the appropriate code to the link then save.
Over-riding link style issue:
When someone intentionally sets a style when editing a link you can see (if you look at the source of the rendered page) that the style is indeed being properly applied. However there is no CSS which defines what style should be applied.
Example: while using the editor - highlight text, click link icon, in pop-up box add URL and apply a style - such as "Bold (Hover: Highlight)", click "Save", then save/post text. The code for the link includes "class="hihvr", but upon inspection, the class "hihvr" is not being defined in any of the stylesheets attached to the rendered page
The work-around won't work well for the large user community in our group. They need something "simpler". ;-)