[pmwiki-users] Default styling of links to non-existent pages

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:21:22AM -0500, David Spitzley wrote:
> >>> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> 01/27/06 3:08 PM >>>
> Currently PmWiki automatically styles links to non-existent pages
> by placing a question mark after the link and a dotted underline
> beneath it.  This choice was settled upon after many discussions
> in August of 2004.
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> I'd say stick with it as the default (you can't go wrong with making broken links blindingly obvious), but make whatever changes 
> are necessary/possible to make it easy for skin designers to override.

Well, it's not too difficult to override things now;
the main annoyance is that PmWiki uses the 'border' attribute
for created links instead of the 'text-decoration' (which is
what most links use).  AFAIK there's not a way to get
a dotted underline using 'text-decoration'.

Pm