Removing Hyperlink underlines (FrontPage 2000)

Topic

New Reply

I know I have read this before, but a search of my emails and on this site have revealed nothing. On the company website, I have “Shared Borders” to link to other pages. I am having difficulty removing the underlines on the hyperlinks. I have created some ok buttons but the text is not pretty with the underlines. It has been over a year since I used FP2k, CSS, HTML and JavaScripts. Since I am the Asst. Network Admin I get to update the web site once a year so my memory is all I have to go by.
Your time is greatly appreciated.

Reply | Quote

Replies

Are you using images for the links in your shared border or text?

Can you attach a small screen shot of what the border nav looks like?

Dave

Reply | Quote

No, I am not using images. Attached is a screen shot.

Reply | Quote

I would think (?!) that on the page with the shared borders there are some page-level properties for what links look like, in one of FP’s dialogs. I don’t use this feature though, so perhaps you have to set it on every page? What a pain. But I’m fairly certain FP has a dialog for this.

Reply | Quote

Yeah, I would think so too, but if they are there I have not found them. The shared borders are by default on every page that needs them. I defined the “Child” level for these buttons but as for text modification I do not see a Microsoft interface.

Reply | Quote

To remove the underline from normal text that is used as a hyperlink, I simply select it and click on the Underline icon.

The result is something like:

Logistics

Reply | Quote

Leif, Yup, that is what I would do too, but unfortunately FP is not that way. When using shared borders you defining what you want shared (what pages) and then you get a couple of basic choices (Text or Button) and I have tried them without luck.
Again I knew how to do this at one point using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, I do not think I have ever done it in FP. Being a quite busy guy these are the things I tend to forget.

Reply | Quote

Try using the attached code within the head section – or you could make it into a style sheet and reference it.
Cheers

Reply | Quote

You are a goddess! So simple yet so effective.
The only thing I will need to check on is if it is fine with my boss to have all of the hyperlinks lose their underline.
Also, how would I use it as a style sheet to connect to every page so that I do not have to enter it (your wonderful, enlightened, brilliant text) on each and every page?

Reply | Quote

Goddess
Take the sample text file I provided you with and save it with a .css extension
Then you can go to the Format, Style Sheet Links menu and create the link to the style sheet. Later on, of course you can add all sorts of things to the style sheet and all linked pages will be updated, yah gotta love style sheets.
In fact if you wish to link a group of pages to the same style sheet at one time, switch to the folder view and highlight the pages you want to link.
Then back to Format, Style Sheet Links menu and voila – multiple pages linked at one time.

Back to Olympus

Reply | Quote

Attached is the Top frame that FP2k put in as my Shared Text.
It points to a “webbot”. I have entered “style=”background-color: #CCCCCC; border-style: outset; border-color: #C0C0C0; padding: .5″-style” in several places (after “Navigation” and at the end of the Webbot info) trying to get the “button” effect that I am wanting. No luck.
Does anyone know how to edit the Webbot?

Reply | Quote

“Does anyone know how to edit the Webbot?” ….

You can’t – okay, maybe you can, but in over 5 years working with FP I haven’t figured it out and boy I’m going to cheesed with myself if it turns out to be something simple.

But before I go making wild suggestions, I just want to be clear on what you want – I gather want your shared border to have a different appearance than the main body of the page?
In that case why not frames?

Cheers

Reply | Quote

(Edited by WebGenii on 03-Oct-02 13:59. edited to add hyperlink)

‘cuse I’m lazy. I am er was using the default FP settings. I am in the process of turning the “Shared Borders” into Frames to resolve this “delima”. By the way the whole thing stems from the Salesslime wanting our links to look like buttons instead of text (http://www.diversifiedplastics.com[/url%5D).

Reply | Quote

An alternative which appears as text but doesn’t act like it, and doesn’t have the ‘common’ look of your average button, is to use a graphic image of text inside a single cell table. This can give you a much bigger ‘target’ area to click on and allows effects such as text colour change to be used. (Requires two graphic images)

To see what I mean, visit this site, click on “Products”, then move your cursor over “Solar Charge Controllers”.

Reply | Quote

Yeah, a mouseover. Unfortunately in FP2k and Shared boarders on the top you cannot do that. I have done the mouseover and for the updates site made the button changes on the left Shared Boarder, that is why I am confused with Micro$oft. Why can I make the changes on the left “frame” and not the top “frame”.

Reply | Quote

Mouseover of text in css could be something like this:

a:link { text-decoration: none; color: #008080; font-family: Comic Sans MS;
background:#663333 }
A:visited { color: blue}
A:hover { color: yellow; font-weight: bold; background:blue }
A:active { color: lime }

Certainly something fun to try!

Cheers

Reply | Quote

You can have the seamless look of shared borders when using frames by disabling frame borders from displaying. The upside to frames (in your situation) is that you can make each page look different.

Cheers

Reply | Quote