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Questions tagged [hyperlinks]

Hyperlinks indicate that clicking on a piece of text or image will take you to related information.

Hyperlinks, or short, links, are often marked up visually to distinguish them from other text by coloring or underlining them. Furthermore, link highlighting is often distinguished into states:

  • unvisited
  • mouse hover
  • mouse press
  • visited
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When should hyperlinks be underlined?

Have you noticed that more and more websites have removed underlines from hyperlinks? For example, the current beta test of Google doesn't have underlines on the search results. Google, along with other big name websites, have slowly weeded out…
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Why do read links turn purple?

Today I saw a post on Facebook that had this pun: Clicked links turn purple because blue + "read" equals purple Is there any specific reason why a link is blue and when it is clicked/read, it turns to purple? Do these colors have any meaning?
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Hyperlink the verb or the noun?

I'm telling users to get something and where they can get it. Should I hyperlink the action or the destination? Which of the following would be easier for the user to parse and execute? You need to upgrade the app from the Android…
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Is "Read more" a good link text?

Excerpts of posts displayed on a blog index page usually end with a link saying "Read more", "Continue reading", or similar. Now, it's very well understood why "click here" is not a good link text, but don't most of the arguments hold for a "read…
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Which anchor text variation provides the best experience?

Basically, my question is about where anchor tag links should be located. In the specific sentence Click here to go to this site, what makes the most sense? Click here to go to this site. Click here to go to this site. Click here to go to this…
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How should one differentiate links?

I'm making an app where one can read old English works, where I'd like to have two clicking actions: The user should to be able to click on certain words which take a person to another page (cross-linking) The user should be able to click on a word…
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Why is there a link to the current page?

If you are reading this, that might mean that you have opened this question (or maybe previewing the question). If you have indeed opened this question, when you click on the question title it links you back here... Why do sites like facebook,…
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Are people more likely to click on a link with a complete title?

I have a small section in the sidebar in which some links (not all) can become too long and use up multiple lines, I'd like to know whether it matters and how much it maters if I cut these off to keep things clean. For example, I have two links…
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multiple ways to do the same thing

Using multiple icons to mean the same thing. Its a pretty common UX technique to allow for users with different types of mental model to be able to navigate; some people like top menus, others icons elsewhere, etc... However, in some of my testing…
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Links in a page pointing to same page? (as in Stack Exchange questions' title)

Example: (questions' title here are an example indeed) You're in ux.stackexchange, reading the question Links in a page pointing to same page? (as in Stack Exchange questions' title) You can follow us on Twitter. I often see content that offer…
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What is the best way to insert links in a text?

Is there some recognized best practice when it comes to inserting hypertext in a page? For instance, what is the best between: Check out our website: http://example.com And.. Check out our website! Or.. Check out our website! I'm thinking the…
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Tile UX: Is there too much information in these tiles?

I'm working on a flashcard application - I really like the UX of skydrive.com and want to apply the tile paradigm to this app. In the app, Cards belong to Sets belong to Folders. A Folder is represented by a solid blue box; a set is represented by…
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What is the best practice for styling links, when considering mobile and tablet UX?

I am working on a website that has a variety of content types. Many different titles, modules. Some of the modules have titles that are clickable that take the user through to a landing page for that category, some don't. At the moment the titles…
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When is it considered a link and when is it already considered a button?

I mean take a look at the http://ux.stackexchange.com homepage. There is a yellowish link "Ask Question" =: missing the, big Letters like in headings etc. However, there is also a link like "read the faq »" etc. Technically they are both tags,…
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