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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:47 am

If you use the MXP <send> tag with the underline option off (%pref(MXPUnderline,0)) then the cursor also doesn't change into the "pointing hand" icon that indicates hyperlinks. It'd be nice if there could either be a separate option to disable the hand, or simply have the underline option not affect the hand. It makes it very difficult to know what's an MXP link and what isn't with no underlining AND no hand.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Does <u> work in this situation? I know you don't want underlines, but there are a bunch of other text-formatting tags to use instead.

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:31 am

I'm not sure what you're suggesting there Matt. Normally when you do, say:

#mxp <send lol>test</send>

the word is underlined and the cursor changes into the pointing hand when you hover over it. With the underline option turned off, the link isn't underlined and the cursor doesn't change from the normal I-bar - that makes them very hard to detect, and that's my problem. My suggestion is that even with the underline option off, the cursor still change into the hand.

With the underline option turned off, then this:

#mxp <send lol><u>test</u></send>

will still change the cursor, but it'll also underline the text, which defies the point of turning the option off in the first place. If you were to bold or italicise or do something else to the text, it wouldn't affect whether or not the cursor changes, if that's what you were suggesting.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Yes, but there's more than just the u tag. The point wasn't so much to change the cursor as to ensure it was much more visible than the standard link behavior regardless of what Zugg sets the <send> tag to do (<color> works very nicely for this).

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:14 am

Actually, the reason I'm asking about this is because I was doing some experiments with white space and mxp links. I was running this code:

#mxp {<send lol>" "%repeat("-",10)" "</send>}
#5 {#mxp {<send lol>"|"%repeat(" ",10)"|"</send>}}
#mxp {<send lol>" "%repeat("-",10)" "</send>}

to see if the white space would still be counted as part of the link. It does, which is very nice. The only problem is that it's very unsightly with the underline option on, and with it off it's impossible to tell that the white space is actually a link.

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

When browsing web pages I prefer my hyperlinks to be a different colour (and on hover go red or something), rather than underlined... makes it more pleasing to the eyes.

It sounds like it's a bug that the mouse cursor doesn't change when hoving over a link that isn't underlined. And it would be nice (if it hasn't been implemented already) to have a default link colour and default on mouse-over colour (plus having the mouse cursor change as it should).