Styling links for print

Hyperlinks are fundamental in web pages, but they don't transfer so well to print.

Getting ready

Open the print.css file in the templates\rhuk_milkyway\css directory.

How to do it...

There are two aspects to styling links for print:

• How the link itself appears within the printed version of the page: It's a good idea to distinguish links that appear within content from normal text, as this can provide some context to the surrounding content. For example, it can tell a reader of the printed version that more information on a topic mentioned within the original article on the Web and recommended by the article's author was available.

  To this end, we'll use the following CSS in our print stylesheet:

  a, a:active, a:link, a:visited {
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: underline
  }
  

• How to get across the context of the link (the destination of the link) on paper: Hyperlinks work on the Web because you're able to click (or otherwise select) the link and view the content on that...