Sent by Adam Kuehn on 27 September 2002 20:08
Moira Burke wrote:
>I'd like to show the URLs after my links in the printed version of my
>site. While my links should be underlined, I don't want the URLs to be.
>Additionally, I don't want URLs to show up after linked images. Neither
>seems to work properly (in Netscape 7); is it a browser bug or am I
>missing something?
These two problems have similar causes.
The underlines are still appearing because the generated content,
although appearing "after the element's document tree content" as per
the spec, still is considered by the UA to be within the scope of the
anchor tag. In other words, examine the following code:
<style>
a {text-decoration: underline;}
a span {text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<a>link with <span>lots of text</span> in it</a>
The text in the span will still have an underline, because although
the span has no decoration, the decoration from the anchor continues
throughout the entire element. You can make this more clear by
adding colors. If the anchor color is red, and the span color is
blue, the text in the span will be blue with a red underline. This
is the same problem with your generated content. Effectively, you
are getting:
<a>link text <span>(generated URL)</span></a>
In a surprisingly similar way, your specific selector isn't removing
the generated content, either. Instead, your specific selector is
appending (well, inserting, actually) more generated content after
your primary content. In your case, of course, it is inserting the
empty string, so you can't see any effect. But if you change your
specific selector to generate something other than the empty string,
say "banana", you will end up with post-generation content that looks
a bit like this:
<a>link text <span><span>banana</span>(generated URL)</span></a>
In your specific case, there's an image in there, but you get the general idea.
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I'm not sure I see a good workaround, meaning a work-around that
doesn't use a host of added tags and classes, for either of these
problems. Any suggestions out there?
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-Adam Kuehn
