Inconsistent format of links in 2011

  • Resolved gjetley

    (@gjetley)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi guys,
    Using Template TwentyEleven, I have created a page with a dozen or so links, but the format of them seems inconsistent. Sometimes the links are underlined and sometimes they are not (although an underline always seems to appear if one hovers on the link). My preference is to have them all underlined all the time.

    Here is an example page

    https://www.montemuse.com/the-region/

    Any ideas why this is happening. Help would be appreciated as I think this kind of inconsistency can confuse users.

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  • It appears you styled them with an underline in the editor (highlighted and clicked on the ‘u’ in the editor).

    If you want all a tags to have the text decoration (underline) you would have to update your styles.css around line 485 to have text-decoration: Underline; instead of none.

    Thread Starter gjetley

    (@gjetley)

    Thanks cikeving for your reply. But I don’t really understand. I’m very much a beginner and certainly wouldn’t get into doing anything with CSS as I don’t even know what they are.

    When I first created the inks I used exactly the same method in the WordPress editor for all of them. I simply highlighted the relevant text I wanted to be the link, then clicked on the Link icon which took me to a page where I could insert the url of the link.

    Having done that I was taken back to my edit page – the link would automatically have become blue. Whether it was underlined or not seems to be completely at random. I didn’t do anything myself (as far as I know) to actually make an underline or not.

    Underlining the link now as you suggest does work, but is a bit cumbersome. The line first appears in black (under blue text) and I then have to find the exact shade of blue (it’s not a standard colour) in order to match it and apply to the line.

    Any idea why the random effect – it’s a real hassle. Thanks, Gil

    Sorry – no – i’m not sure why your getting weird results. You would have to post theme specific issues in the support for the specific theme.

    You could just style them with CSS.
    Open up Appearence, Editor, style.css.
    At the bottom, type this code.
    `a (
    text-decoration: underline;
    )

    Thread Starter gjetley

    (@gjetley)

    Thanks to both of you. In the worst case scenario I can always fix it manually as above. Strange though, might take it up with the TwentyEleven developers if it becomes a nuisance.

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