Blog formatting skills
Jul. 23rd, 2020 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellwayI've been wanting my Dreamwidth hyperlinks to have underlines for a while, to make it easier to distinguish adjacent links from one another. Yesterday I did some research and managed to work out that one wants the "custom CSS" field for that, and found a copy of the code I would need. (Well, I found a copy of code for how to *remove* some underlines, but once I had the syntax it was easy enough to plug different things into it.)
As a bonus, while researching this I came across a guide that--among other things--describes how to make those fancy linked footnotes so you don't have to scroll back and forth trying to find your place! They're much simpler to make than I'd expected: I'd kind of assumed they required some kind of deep infrastructure and were only possible on sites that were deliberately set up to support them (I rarely see them on non-self-hosted pages, and I think the exceptions tend to be the sort of hosts that might well put effort into allowing for that). But no, it's actually pretty basic HTML.
As a bonus, while researching this I came across a guide that--among other things--describes how to make those fancy linked footnotes so you don't have to scroll back and forth trying to find your place! They're much simpler to make than I'd expected: I'd kind of assumed they required some kind of deep infrastructure and were only possible on sites that were deliberately set up to support them (I rarely see them on non-self-hosted pages, and I think the exceptions tend to be the sort of hosts that might well put effort into allowing for that). But no, it's actually pretty basic HTML.
