FIGURE 3.20 These illustrations
show what the various values can
do, but the most useful application
of text decoration is the control of
underlining on links.
The primary application of text decoration is controlling the underlining
of links. For example, it is usually obvious by their location
and organization that sidebar navigation links are indeed links.
They are much easier to read, and look nicer, without their default
underlining, although you might add the underlining back onto
a link when the user mouses over it to con?¬? rm that it??™s clickable.
Conversely, you really want links within body copy to be underlined.
It??™s a nice touch, and improves readability, if you remove the
underlining of a link when the user mouses over it. Think long and
hard before you add underlining to text that is not a link. Perhaps
if you have a column of numbers, you might underline the last one
before the total, or something like that, but Web users are so used to
underlining as the visual cue for a link that you are setting them up
for frustration and a lot of useless clicking if you underline text that
is not actually a link.
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Text-Align Property
Example: p {text-align:right;}
Values: left, right, center, justify
There are only four values for this property: left, center, right, and
justify. The text aligns horizontally with respect to the containing
element, and you must set the property on the containing element;
in other words, if you want an h1 headline centered within a div,
set the text-align of the div, not the h1.
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