HTML 3.2 and links

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I’m creating a HTML email in HTML 3.2. FW lets me colour my text links, but I can not remove the underline from links. And Text Link Style Action doesn’t work. I presume these are drawbacks to using 3.2?

But I get plenty of HTML emails with text links that are not underlined (Apple for example).

Is it possible to remove the underlines (and have an underline on Hover or Active)?

Thanks

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You can remove the underline, but only from the entire link – you
cannot have different hover/click/normal states to the link. So if you
remove the underline, you’re really removing it from all states of
your links, all the time.

Do this one at a time for each link: Select the entire link text, open
the Hyperlink dialog, click on the Extended button, press New, enter
the following Name / Value pair in the sub-dialog:

  • Name: style
  • Value: text-decoration:none

(be sure to only add the part after the Name: or Value: – those are
to illustrate how the dialog looks while you are editing it)

Okay out of the stack of dialogs, and repeat for the next link.

Walter

On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Mark wrote:

I’m creating a HTML email in HTML 3.2. FW lets me colour my text
links, but I can not remove the underline from links. And Text Link
Style Action doesn’t work. I presume these are drawbacks to using 3.2?

But I get plenty of HTML emails with text links that are not
underlined (Apple for example).

Is it possible to remove the underlines (and have an underline on
Hover or Active)?

Thanks

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Hi Walter

Thanks for that. I’m going to create my email in HTML 4.01 and try it.

3.2 is just so limiting.

Mark

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Outlook is limiting, HTML 3.2 is dated. Oh, and if validation matters
to you (probably not an issue, you’re already getting peanut butter in
the chocolate with HTML e-mail) then realize that this little trick
will not produce valid code, as HTML 3.2 does not actually have a
style attribute in the A tag.

Walter

On Oct 7, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Mark wrote:

Hi Walter

Thanks for that. I’m going to create my email in HTML 4.01 and try it.

3.2 is just so limiting.

Mark

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