I have some html anchor link code, and unlike the rest of document I want it to look like it is not a link.
Is there a simple way to disable the style change caused by wrapping text in a anchor tag without having to brute force it to be the same (ie, if I change the body font style I don't have to also change some other :link stuff).
Setting color to black and text-decoration to explicitly none is a little more aggressive than worked for me.
I was looking for the CSS of the anchors to be "benign" and just blend into the existing CSS. Here's what I went with:
a.nostyle:link {
text-decoration: inherit;
color: inherit;
cursor: auto;
}
a.nostyle:visited {
text-decoration: inherit;
color: inherit;
cursor: auto;
}
Then I just added the CSS nostyle class to the anchors that I wanted to be unformatted.
If you don't care about IE, you can attach :not(#exclude)
(where exclude
is the ID of the link in question) to your link styles:
a:link:not(#exclude), a:visited:not(#exclude) {
text-decoration: none;
color: blue;
cursor: pointer;
}
Otherwise I don't think you can brute-force it the way you describe. You can either use an inline style instead (not recommended) or you can use a special class/ID assigned to that link, whose selector you'd group with body
. For example, if you had these styles:
body {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: auto;
}
a:link, a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: blue;
cursor: pointer;
}
You can simply toss in a more specific selector, that'd match that link, onto the body
rule:
body, #exclude {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: auto;
}
a:link, a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: blue;
cursor: pointer;
}
I achieved this by creating a class .reset-a
and targeting all of its' pseudo classes.
Targeting of all pseudo classes is important to make it flawless.
outline: 0
property removes the dotted border that surrounds a link when it is focused or active.
.reset-a, .reset-a:hover, .reset-a:visited, .reset-a:focus, .reset-a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
outline: 0;
cursor: auto;
}