BLOG: In Defense of the Hyperlink Underline
CSS is great when it works. It lets you do all kinds of interesting things to HTML elements. You can even remove the most sacred of all things sacred, the underline of a hyperlink.
The very first Web site ever made had a hyperlink, and that hyperlink had an underline, so there's tradition to think about. But you want to keep the underline for more than just that.
For one thing, most hyperlinks are underlined. In fact, this is why removing the underline is so tempting. Designers like to lose the underline to make their sites unique, which is an important part of the designer's role. The Web would be much less interesting if every site used the same conventions.
There's just one problem. People who browse ...
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