UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback Extend the coverage of the links

In all those places where you have an icon with its text equivalent mext to it, could you make the link include them both?

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I can do that. Would need to remove the space between the icon and the text though so there isn't an underline before the text, but I wonder if that will make it look to close without the space? Guess I can give it a try and find out.

I'd forgotten about that because I have my browser set to only underline on hover.

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Taking the space out made it look to crammed, so I left the space in. Doesn't look too bad I don't think.

I hope that's OK with the other because it's perfect for me. Thankyou.
Are we going to separate all the other link images in the same way? It would make them universally useful instead of restricted to the English speakers.

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I was thinking the same thing. Right now you have to make different images like Edit and Reply to have the icon and the text in them, but if we do all images the same way then it's just a matter of using the language files. Maybe some others can chime in here and see what they think.

Perfect for me!

This would be good.

Ill just add some more invisible space to the right side of the icons, this way you can remove the white space and the problem will be gone.

Mateo Byler
CruceDeCaminos.com

[removing text from within the buttons] There would be some advantages and some dissadvantages. Or at least it would not be as simple as it might seem right now:

Basically either at times the text would become too long or not descriptive enough. For example, right now in the page you are reading this (at least if you are in showflat) the []http://www.wwwthreads.com/w3timages/next.gif[/] button has an alt text that reads "Next thread", and something even longer in Spanish: "Siguiente Conversación". You could just say "Next" (as the image does right now not considering the ALT text), but then you are not descriptive enough, and users might be confussed.
Same happens with many other buttons, for example the []http://www.wwwthreads.com/w3timages/all.gif[/] button just reads "Index" in the image itself, but the Alt text reads "View all threads", and even longer in for example Spanish: "Ver todas las conversaciones"... I havent checked other languages.

If we were to use just icons and text then the only real solution so that it looks good at the same time it is understandable would be to have something like this:
[Next icon] <---- Should have an ALT tag reading "Next Thread".
followed by the text:
Next <---- the link should have the "title" attribute to it that acts the same way as the Alt text does in images... as far as I know this only works on IE5, but still... better than not having it.


The other only real solution would be to continue using text inside the button gifs, but have different language button folders, and call them depending on your language, similarly as what is done with the language text.

Mateo Byler
CruceDeCaminos.com

To remove the underline on that space, use the stylesheet. Just set A's text-decoration property to 'none' and the underline is gone! []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/] - It can easily be done for that link along using the style attribute tag or for a group of links (menu options) using the class system.


Yours,

[:red]Per Gøtterup
System Administrator, NetGroup A/S

Umm. That same problem is going to apply to all these new image plus following-text link that we're all enthusing over...

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I do have that enabled in some of the stylesheets. The desert one though has all links underlined to demonstrate that various styles that can be acheived.