Links can be styled in different ways, with any CSS property (e.g. color, font-family, background, etc.).
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<style>
a { color: #FF0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; background-color: lemonchiffon; font-style: italic; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; } </style> <body> <p>This is <a href="text_hey.html" target="_blank">a styled link</a> within an unstyled paragraph</p> </body> |
This is a styled link within an unstyled paragraph |
An interesting mystery came up for me here. I had a thin strip of the link background color showing up beneath my back, home and next buttons. That color was only supposed to affect the link in the right-side column. It took me about five minutes to figure where that thin line was coming from! So I had to put a class identifier on the link I wanted affected on this page.
