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Wiser, and more HTML/CSS-proficient brains than mine are asked:
Can you tell me please why this specific code works in some browsers
and not in others? And what, if anything, to do about it?
The task:
An intro page contained links to several things, including the main
product documentation, the release notes, some white papers, etc.
It was pointed out that all the links were similar-looking, and the
most important one - the main docs - should stand out.
The approach:
So, in the <head> of my START_HERE.html page, I added this:
<script>
function displayResult()
{
document.getElementById("p1").style.textDecoration="underline overline";
}
</script>
Then, down where the link text is, I surrounded the href like this:
<button type="button" onclick=:displayResult()><a href="./001-011136-003_myproduct_5-2_webhelp_rev-a/startpage.htm" target="_blank">My Product 5.2.x Help </a></button><br>
Now, the appearance of the link is a nice, big, hard-to-miss button, in all browsers.
Unfortunately, it is a working link only in Chrome or Iron or Safari browsers right now.
It fails in IE9, Firefox, and Opera browsers... Click-click... nothing.
Well, not totally nothing - it briefly inverts when clicked, but it doesn't function as a link
Did I steal some deprecated code? Or...
Thanks,
-kevin
PS: It doesn't need to be a button. Anything non-garish, to make the link text stand out a bit, would be fine.
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