Please make the links underlined

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Standard red for visited and blue for unvisited, and underlined! I have seen people posting inline links many times and no one knew they were there because they looked like regular text.

Breaking a fundamental Web browser feature is so so uncool. Please change the stylesheet.

If red/blue links clash with sky blue and lime green, consider navy blue for unvisited and burgundy for visited links, or something along those lines. You got 256^3 colors to play with! And UNDERLINED!

Linked text normally has a slightly different front from the regular text. That's how I recognise it.

I think they should be underlined. i went about a year on this site till if figured out that the text was actually a link. i only figured it out because the link said "link".

if this feature cane be changed i think it would be very helpful. thanks,
just-me.

For what its worth I have seen threads (today) which have normal blue links, but I to have no clue how to make them. I came to this section of the forum to ask this very question actually.

Okay while writing this, I realized I could just quote the message I saw and examine the BBCode they entered. It appears he used a work-around by simply adding the BBCode for underline as well as blue text, which seems to work fine. This of course does not help you if you are reading a post someone else made and they did not add in the same BBCode. I too think links should be displayed in the web standard of underlined blue text by default.

Example:
http://www.wrongplanet.net

Example BBCode for above link:

*edited because I initially messed up the color portion of the BBCode it is fixed now
*edited2 because I just realized WP doesn't show edit timestamps, just post timestamps LOL

I agree the site should format links properly. Yes we can manually do it on a link per link basis with BBCode, but it's a lot of hassle for something basic which shouldn't be broken in the first place, and hardly anyone uses the "workaround" anyway.

Many of my posts contain an embedded link and as a courtesy I always use bold lettering when setting up a link.
More than a few of us have visual issues to go along with autism, and the difference between an embedded link and
and regular text is too subtle for most of to see. An example of what I mean can be seen in my signature, there is very
little if any difference between the line that says "Life, Liberty, and Perseveration...." which is a link and the line below it
( Weiner's Law of Libraries...) which is not a link.

i really want this changed so it will be more obvious.

There's a way!,
I created a stylesheet that can be used in the forum, it adds some improvements to it and makes it cleaner
In Firefox just
1-install Greasemonkey here
2.-and install the script here

voilá! a cleaner simpler underlined WP Hope you like it