Last modified: 2005-11-07 17:38:08 UTC
Hello, While I was doing some work for school, I had to read a big piece of text on wikipedia. I found it a little bit annoying to read this because of all the links in the text. It's not that i can't read it, but it would be much easier to really concentrate on the text and understand it if there were no links, or if the links were the same color as the text. So: Wouldn't it be a good idea to make a button the site to turn off links in text, or change the color of in-text links to black? This would make reading the text way easier. I hope i've helped you with this comment...
You can change the colour for links in your user CSS.
You can also use the "printable version" link in the toolbox, which (among other things, obviously) has exactly the effect you describe; amusingly, you can still *follow* the links, you just have to guess where they are. ;)
While I doubt we'd add this built-in, I'm sure some enterprising lad or lass could whip up a bookmarklet to change the link color on/off.
(In reply to comment #3) > While I doubt we'd add this built-in, I'm sure some enterprising lad or lass could whip > up a bookmarklet to change the link color on/off. Good idea. How about a quick hack of Jesse Ruderman's "zap colors" from http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets (turns all links plain and black, but makes sure they're underlined on hover; they're still links, after all): javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles=':link, :visited, :link *, :visited * { color: black !important; text-decoration:none !important } :link:hover, :link *:hover {text-decoration:underline !important};'; if(document.createStyleSheet) { document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else { newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet'; newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } })();
