Can’t get rid of underline on link

  • ruthstokes

    (@ruthstokes)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    Have been trying to get rid of underline of my links (some of which are PDFs, some websites) by changing

    a {
    color:#009;
    text-decoration: underlined;
    }

    to
    a {
    color:#009;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

    but it doesn’t seem to be having any effect. I can’t see any other bits of code starting with a in the css either…
    Is there any easy solution to this?

    Thanks in advance for any help,

    Ruth

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  • weirdnews

    (@weirdnews)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    You will need to do that from your style sheets
    css find the URL style and add text-decoration:none;

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    try changing this:

    .postmetadata a:hover,.entry a {
    color:#09F;
    text-decoration:underline;
    }

    to this:

    .postmetadata a:hover,.entry a {
    color:#09F;
    text-decoration:none;
    }

    weirdnews

    (@weirdnews)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    that probably wont work. You will more then likely need to open your style.css and locate your postarea depending on the theme you are using and find link attributes.
    /* Content */

    Meta forms for me seem to only work within code boxes in theme settings such as leaderboard or ad boxes

    Thread Starter ruthstokes

    (@ruthstokes)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    It worked!! Thanks so much.

    Sorry, while I’m here I actually have another question. Is there a way to change what comes up as the description when the website appears in the search engine? At the moment it reads ‘Ruth Stokes is proudly powered by WordPress and Clean News Theme by Code & Stuff. Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). | Valid XHTML.’ But obviously I’d like to do something a little more descriptive of what the site is about!!

    Many thanks again,
    R

    weirdnews

    (@weirdnews)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    wp-admin settings general, Title and description 😉

    weirdnews

    (@weirdnews)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    in your /wp-admin/options-general.php your vesion may say Taglines which is same as description

    weirdnews

    (@weirdnews)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Also after you set your title and description go to your Appearance link on the side bar in wp-admin and click on your theme name which should take you to theme settings and make the other changes you wish

    Thread Starter ruthstokes

    (@ruthstokes)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Sorry i don’t understand – I’ve already filled in title and description and although this is coming up fine on my actual page, it’s not showing in the google result…

    weirdnews

    (@weirdnews)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Google will change it just takes a few posts for the bot to recrawl you title, The more unique and relevant your posts the faster google will correct it. Sorry I miss understood what you meant before.

    Thread Starter ruthstokes

    (@ruthstokes)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    OK, thanks for your help!

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    @ruthstokes

    Don’t forget to double check the options page on your all-in-one SEO plugin just to make sure that everything defined there is as you want (search engines to see) it. – Home Title, Home Description – in relationship to what your blog title and tagline might be in your WordPress settings. I think the SEO plugin settings might take precedence – that may be worth checking into just to be sure.

    It looks like your last crawl from Google might have been on the 15th, so as long as your SEO plugin is properly configured, and things look okay to you, weirdnews is correct in thinking you might just have to wait for the next crawl for things to change.

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