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ChristianG
21-10-2011, 12:58
Why, when I click on this link (http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36315), does it not automatically return to standard text, remain at bold text when I've already read it?

Sorry, I'm just curious.
sijomon
21-10-2011, 13:28
The 'style' of any element of a page is controlled primarily by the web page that displays it. It is entrerly up to these style definitions how a link is displayed. If a style is not specified then certain default styles take over, these are usually defined by the browser and certain conventions apply, such as a visted link displaying differently to an un-visited link.

Sometimes it is possible to a have the browser override the styles defined in a website, but the exact mechanism to do this is dependant on the browser.

On these forums the styles are defined in the following way:

a:link
{
color: #22229C;
}
a:visited
{
color: #22229C;
}

So you can see that neither a visted (a:visted) or unvisted link (a:link) is displayed as bold, and both are displayed as the same colour
sijomon
21-10-2011, 13:31
Oh, and just for your edification, the reason the links display as red when you hover over them is that the following style is also defined:

a:hover, a:active
{
color: #FF4400;
}

Which says a link which is hovered over, or currently being clicked should display as redish.
ChristianG
21-10-2011, 15:53
I don't think you got my point. A link usually displays as Bold Blue when it has not been read and reverts to conventional (non-Bold) Blue when it has been read.

In this case it does not do that reversion even though I read it several times.
sijomon
21-10-2011, 18:09
The site style sheet should mean that no links display as bold whether they have been visited or not.

It looks like some links define an inline style that makes them bold. But if this is the reason then its being done by the forum software and the cause is not determinable from the page source.
Mike Halligan
21-10-2011, 18:14
The site style sheet should mean that no links display as bold whether they have been visited or not.


Is that "should" as in this site's style sheet says so, or "Should" as in IMHO?

Is this a defect in that the site is in breach of its own style definition or an appreciation by one user that it differs from his preference? There is a world of difference between the two. :o
sijomon
21-10-2011, 18:22
Is that "should" as in this site's style sheet says so, or "Should" as in IMHO?

Is this a defect in that the site is in breach of its own style definition or an appreciation by one user that it differs from his preference? There is a world of difference between the two. :o

The former. The style sheet doesn't assign bold to a link element, and therefore no link element should render as bold if its rendering correctly. Appart from the the case when the forum software has inserted an inline style in a link element. Inline styles are the work of the devil.
Mike Halligan
21-10-2011, 18:38
The former. The style sheet doesn't assign bold to a link element, and therefore no link element should render as bold if its rendering correctly. Appart from the the case when the forum software has inserted an inline style in a link element. Inline styles are the work of the devil.
Then, I rather fear that Christian is experiencing inintended browser-induced behaviours. Here, in Opera, the defined style displays rather than this reported phenomenon.
Edward
21-10-2011, 18:43
Why, when I click on this link (http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36315), does it not automatically return to standard text, remain at bold text when I've already read it?

Sorry, I'm just curious.
Its your browser.I get the same, however, if I [control+F5] it forces a page reload from the site. Applied to both FF and IE.