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"Mark Durgee" <mdurgee@nothanks.com> wrote in message
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> Well I would agree with that too.
>
> BUT, for people who mock up web pages or the occasional client who INSISTS
> on it...
>

One way to fake it until you make it look like there's underlining is to
copy the type and paste in position, thus creating a secondary text layer.
This 'synced' secondary text layer can then simply be overtyped with the
____ underscore char. Of course, it's a hack, and you've no match-up to the
proportional spacing of the type you're 'underlining', but it'd work for a
visual, if no other method comes to light.

On the other hand, using CSS we can at last take web pages out of those
horrible days when CERN brainwashed the public into thinking (I use the term
'thinking' in a pavlovian context) that all occurrences of blue underlined =
hyperlink exclusively. Still, there y'go. I hate to think what kind of motif
we have to adopt to indicate 'hyperlink' when we start interacting with the
web the way it should be when it matures - on television, I mean.

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Ian Tindale
London