Link formatting within the message of thread.

[RollerCam540]

I recently posted a response to someone's problem, my solution included links to support documention from microsoft's website, and those links were not underlined or discolored -- they were formatted no differently then ordinary text is within a thread message.

I thought it would be nice if links were automatically formatted such that they are easily distinguished from text. Had I not formatted those links differently then I don't believe the user would've known that I had included links.

I do apologize if this is not the place to discuss an issue such as this. I also apologize if this is an isolated incident applicable only to me, as I have yet to review my settings; although my setting should be default.

 

[Mr. Smith]

100% agree.

I often embolden links so others can differentiate the normal text from the hyperlink. It is a pain and if you forget they can go unnoticed...

Jim - how about it?

 

[JN]

100% agree.

I often embolden links so others can differentiate the normal text from the hyperlink. It is a pain and if you forget they can go unnoticed...

Jim - how about it?

Yeah its a bit of an overhang from the old website design. Underlining (or bold - whatever u fancy) shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Mr. Smith]

Something akin to what standard hyperlinks look like - underlined in a blue, although that might not work with the blue of the forum... Pick a colour, any colour!

 

[JN]

Something akin to what standard hyperlinks look like - underlined in a blue, although that might not work with the blue of the forum... Pick a colour, any colour!

Pink?:yumyum:

 

[Rastalovich]

Pink?:yumyum:

Typical.

Not blue

 

[Mr. Smith]

Pink?:yumyum:

Sure, hot neon pink with acid green underline... Rast, you like the sound of that lol?

Given the colour of the forum how about just using the purple 'used' hyperlink colour?

 

[FarFarAway]

Why not just do this yourself? Pretty easy

Either way I'm sure Jim will look at a solution

 

[Mr. Smith]

Why not just do this yourself? Pretty easy

Either way I'm sure Jim will look at a solution

It is a valid improvement imo, better to have things automated than have to do them manually.

Thats cool you guys are looking into it.

Thanks

 

[JN]

Fixed

For the moment I've stuck with what most people have used in the past bold

EDIT: now i remember why it was set that way...fugly forum links

 

[Hassan]

good good

 

[Raging]

everything is now bold? it looks so weird

 

[JN]

everything is now bold? it looks so weird

Ye this is the problem i remember. As soon as you tell VBulletin to put links in bold it does everything in bold. There's no way to easily apply it to just messages.

How about underlined?

 

[DavidT]

What we did for my forum (Which runs IPB) is we modified the theme a tad, and put the posts template bit in a new div, and applied underlines only to links in that div via CSS.

 

[Bungral]

The underlined doesn't look bad..

 

[Mr. Smith]

Underline works for me

 

[JN]

I'll prolly be redesigning the forum theme from the ground up at some point soon anyway (to match homepage), so as long as its good for the moment

 

[ionicle]

is it not possible to just underline URL's in posts, rather than just all of them?

 

[FarFarAway]

Isn't that exactly what we're talking about?

 

[Mr. Smith]

Isn't that exactly what we're talking about?

ROFL... Sometimes you kill me...