Instructions for underlining use of hyperlinks _ experience Exchange

About the underline in hyperlinks this and the details of the problem, presumably everyone has discussed and thought, we all know, grasp a principle can: "Let users clearly distinguish between hyperlink text and other text forms, and subconscious know can click." But for the subconscious to know can be clicked, or controversial, different people, different environments will have different views.

You might want to discuss it in a couple of scenarios:

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

Even if there is an underscore is an "old form" of the device, so generally not underlined; good design not only satisfies the click, but also satisfies the visual hierarchy relationship.

2. Full page is a link, underline becomes dispensable performance.

Like Sina, Sohu home are can click, so the underline has no meaning is not big, mop in the home design to go
Dropped the optional underline. (from top to bottom: Sina, Sohu, Mop.) ）

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

Look at the following design capture, only Google and Baidu design I have no doubts, the other two design I have to guess.

4. In the case of hyperlinks and text blending, underlining makes it easier for us to click.


5. Independent hyperlinks, without underlining is not sufficient to "express".

6. Need special highlighting of the link, when necessary to use the "pseudo button."

On the problem of pseudo-button, smelly fish in its acceptance pseudo-button has been elaborated more clear, here no longer repeat.

Description: Everyone according to the specific environment, the purpose is to make hyperlinks more susceptible to the subconscious click, to avoid excessive attempts and thinking and waste the visitors more time.

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

Basic categories of Hyperlinks:

• Depending on the link path, hyperlinks in Web pages are generally categorized into the following 3 types: internal links, anchor links, and external links.
• If 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.

