About Hyperlinks Underline Use instructions _ Experience Exchange

About the underscore in the hyperlink and the details of the problem, we must have discussed and think, we all know, grasp a principle can: "Let users clearly distinguish between hyperlinks text and other text forms, and subconsciously know that you can click." But for the subconscious mind to be able to click, or controversial, different people, different circumstances will have different views.

Consider a few scenarios:

1. Navigation area, subconscious I will go to click.

Even if the underline is an "ancient form" of the device, so there is generally no underline; good design not only satisfies the clicks, but also satisfies the visual level relationship.

2. The entire page is all links, the underline becomes the dispensable performance.

Like Sina, Sohu homepage are clickable, so underline the meaningless is not small, mop in the home design to go
Dropped an optional underline. (The following image is from top to bottom: Sina, Sohu, Mop.) ）

3. Can I click? Don't make me guess!

Look at the following design grab, only Google and Baidu design I do not doubt that the other two of the design I want to guess.

4. In the case of hyperlinks and text mixing, underlining is easier for us to click on.


5. Independent hyperlinks, not underlined enough to "express."

6. The link that needs to be highlighted specially, use "pseudo button" when necessary.

About the pseudo button problem, the fish in its accept pseudo button has been expounded more clearly, here no longer repeat.

Description: According to the specific environment, the goal is to make hyperlinks more vulnerable to subconscious clicks, avoid too much trying and thinking and waste more time browsing.

Attached: the role of hyperlinks
The basic concept of a hyperlink is a link from a Web page to a target, which can be another page, a different location on the same page, a picture, an e-mail address, a file, or even an application. An object that is used to hyperlink in a Web page can be a piece of text or a picture. When a viewer clicks on a text or picture that has been linked, the link target appears on the browser and is opened or run according to the type of target.

Basic categories of Hyperlinks:

• Depending on the link path, hyperlinks in a Web page are generally grouped into the following 3 types: internal links, anchor links, and external links.
• If you follow the use of different objects, the links in the Web page can be divided into: text hyperlinks, image hyperlinks, e-mail links, anchor links, multimedia file links, empty links and so on.