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

[Waylan Limberg]

On 2/1/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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'.
>
I agree, although, I don't see the problem in overriding this either.
Taking advantage of the 'cascade' in CSS, the skin designer can just
redefine that to something else:

a.wikilink {
    border:none;
    text-decoration:underline;
}


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