Link colour in posts

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Apologies if this has been brought up before. I tried searching, but didn't find anything.

Would it be possible to make it so that hyperlinks show up as a different colour to regular text in posts, so you can recognise them more easily?

People occasionally include links in their posts, but I often miss them because they blend in so well with the main text. I noticed that they show up blue in the "Topic review" section when replying to a post, so it seems like it might just be an oversight that they don't use that colour in the normal thread view.

As an example of the problem, can you tell how many links I included in the text above without squinting?

I didn't even realise it was a problem until just now because I keep my browser at 120% zoom as a default and the hyperlinks show up as smaller text than everything else so I can spot them easily. I didn't realise that they weren't smaller for everyone until I just switched my view to 100% to check. Now that I know, I agree they should definitely be a different colour.

Three.

And yes, I agree, that the links are poorly handled.

Personally, I always use bold to flag up where I have provided a link, which is consistent with most of the WrongPlanet pages' links, although some force a permanent underline, which makes the underline that comes from hovering the cursor over the link have less visible effect.

And then... on thinking about it, I've just added this to my local CSS:


I think I may drop making the links red, and just keep the emboldening.

I suppose I should add the details on how to get local CSS to work, in various browsers, to the Wrong Planet FAQ. I know I posted various info on this sort of thing, somewhere... I must try to dig it all out. It would include the information on suppressing the annoying red link at the top of the WP pages, how to revert WP font sizes to what they were before they all got mangled by Alex, and so on. E.g. I happen to override the alternating post background colours, from the pale blue/green to a weird pale brown/purple - for no particular reason.

The rare times I post a link I just put in the URL rather than making a fancy link. I figure that way it's obvious it's a link. And it even ads an underline then.

http://www.google.com/ (example)

It would be nice if links with text were set apart visually so we could see they are links. Since they aren't, that's my workaround when posting is to not use them and instead just use the bare URL.