Web Do's & Don'ts » Links

Remove the outline from links on :active only

Bojan — Mon, 17 May 2010 09:32:52 +0000

Web developers sometimes hide the outline of image replaced links, but then keyboard users have no way of seeing them when they are tabbing through the page. The trick is simple-remove the outline from links on :active only. By doing this, keyboard users still get the default outline when they tab to a link and activate the :focus state.

Don’t remove the outline from links

Siniša — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:09:32 +0000

Removing the visual indicator of keyboard focus will give people who rely on keyboard navigation a really hard time navigating and using your site.

Don’t underline text that is not a link

Bojan — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:45:09 +0000

Website users expect links to be underlined. To avoid confusion, don’t underline text that is actually not a hyperlink.

Style Your Links Sensibly

Bojan — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:52:16 +0000

Links on your website must be styled to stand out from the rest of the text. Users should not be guessing which part of the text is a link and which is not.