Questions tagged [hyperlinks]
Hyperlinks indicate that clicking on a piece of text or image will take you to related information.
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Should Wizard steps be clickable links?
I'm designing a reusable Wizard that will be used in multiple places of my web application. It is designed to be truly modular - we detect the number of stages and whether each has been completed by ...
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Why does ux.stackexchange.com use a darker colour to indicate visited links?
Why does this site use a darker colour for links that have been clicked on? When scan reading down the pages all I notice are links I've already visited, completely ignoring the pale blue links.
To ...
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What's the correct UI for displaying actions related to a link without obstructing it?
I would like to allow the user to view stats or add tags to links on a website but that's a very rare use case since most users would never interact with the links beyond just clicking on them to go ...
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Usability of linking to target ID on page refresh
One of our partners is building an application I designed and tested in Axure. I had inferred some AJAX interactions with changing and adding some content to a page, but the developers have built this ...
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Making a linked page more obvious?
I've got a portfolio much like the one displayed below. One of the people who I have shown the portfolio to, asked if I could put some live version of the game/web page in action, or have some video ...
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Clickable List on homepage
When creating a list that you wish to be a display of clickable links to a full page of more detailed information, what is a good way to display this? In the Balsamiq example below, is a sketch of ...
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Why is there a link to the current page?
If you are reading this, that might mean that you have opened this question (or maybe previewing the question). If you have indeed opened this question, when you click on the question title it links ...
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Navigation & Link Hover State
Note: Please link me if this has been asked, I couldn't find what I was looking for
I just had a conversation with my mate who is an Art Director in regards to a website he designed, when it was ...
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Is it OK to use links to display GUI elements or perform actions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
HTML buttons vs hyperlinks for navigation
HTML links were born to show internal or external pages, or take you to a specific page position (anchors).
Now, with the ...
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How to indicate that an image is a link too?
I have a section in my website called "Techonology" that is not part of the main content where I put the logos of each technology used in the website (PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, etc). But I'm searching ...
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Do people use `jump to top of page` links?
I'm talking about links or buttons at the bottom of the page or screen simply linking to the top of the website.
Is there any data on that?
Are they used more frequently on long pages?
What about ...
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Do users trust shortened URLs?
I've got some problems with shortened URLs personally; they're really easy to create and not descriptive, so it's fairly easy to make them link to malware. I'm talking about links like http://bit.ly/...
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Is it harder to locate a link in the side navigation compared to top navigation
Most of the side navigations scroll along with the page and the problem I find when using those kind of websites is that you can't remember the position of the link as while scrolling you are ...
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Styling labels as links to "trick" users into hovering over it?
The title alone would probably result in a chanting "NO!" as the popular answer, but please let me elaborate.
Background
We have a table of items that represent something. Each item can hold one to ...
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Copy/pasting something that's clickable
I have a use case where an element on the page is the most obvious place to link from the list view to the instance view, but users also sometimes need to copy/paste the element text.
Because the ...
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Should I add the length of video to the link?
I'm wondering if there is an formalized research, analytics data, or documented best practices that indicate whether I should add the length of the video in a video link (or near the thumbnail).
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How to differentiate users with accounts from guests in a ranking table?
In a game, I have a table with the max points of the players.
Some of the users are registered and others are guests (anonymous). The difference is that the name of registered users has a link to ...
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How to explain best that there is more to a headline? (Icon, Text, etc)
We want to show "news headlines" within a google map (the news where it happend).
The news will show up in speech bubbles. Only the headline will be shown first. If a user want to read more, he has ...
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Linking into an infinite scrollable stream
I have a web app that contains a stream of entries with a "more..." button at the bottom that loads in older entries. If one of the entries is selected then the right panel displays details on that ...
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Is 'Home' button still a must?
I was wondering if the 'Home' button is still a must on a website menu, or are users already used to clicking on the Logo?
There is a qustion on ux.stackexchange.com about this topic - Home button vs ...
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Link color used for email
What is the recommendation for link color behaviors when it comes to a text link for someone's email address? For example: [email protected]
The following thread, for example, has a variety of ...
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Should a full-sentence HTML link include the period in the linked text?
In HTML, if a full sentence is used for a link, should its terminal punctuation (i.e., period) be included in the linked text?
Consider these two examples:
<a href="about:blank">Watch the ...
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Product image links
The scenario: customer navigates to the start page of a e-commerce book site, is presented with various offers on new books. Books is shown just by its fairly large cover.
Example: http://www....
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Where to put the link to admin section?
I have a website with searchable information for users (catalogue, search, item details, etc.). The site does not offer (and doesn't need) any log-in functionality (content is never personalised and ...
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Use subdomains or directory structure for URLs?
I'm curious if it's considered better practice to use a subdomain (e.g. store.website.com) or a directory (e.g. www.website.com/store) when linking to separate sections of a site.
Assuming both ...
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Best way to link to PDFs/Word docs/etc?
I need to include links to PDFs, Word docs and other document types on a web page. A lot of sites display an icon for the file type, plus the file size. I'm inclined to remove both the icon and file ...
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How should the [Big Buy Now Button] in the right gutter be linked?
I'm redisigning my website and would like to know how the "Big Buy Now Button" in the right gutter should be linked. This button will be available on every page of the site.
I sell two software ...
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What's a good pattern for edit in place with hyperlinks?
I have a datagrid with many columns that I want to be able to edit in place. Some of the values in the table are hyperlinks. I want to be able to follow the hyperlinks and also edit them. The row ...
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Is there a convention for distinguishing internal and external links in a website?
From a user point of view, I think it is a reasonable idea to distinguish internal and external links. By internal links, I mean links that have the same domain name than the website displaying the ...
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From the usability point of view are text links in italics a good or a bad idea?
A colleague of mine (web designer) would like to style the titles of content in italics for aesthetic reasons. The problem is those titles are also text links to the related full content view. When ...
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How to determine whether links have enough contrast?
I find it very hard to distinguish links from normal text on Programmers Stack Exchange, especially visited links on wall-of-text posts. The colour scheme used is:
Background #fafafa (there's a ...
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Link to older posts should point to the left or right? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which direction indicates newer/older?
At the end of a list of blog posts there is often a link to previous posts. Somtimes this link is extended with an arrow pointing to the ...
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Navigation Bar, mixing links and buttons
I am trying to create a navigation menu with 2 functions in it... the website 'page' navigation links and 'action' buttons... sort of like this image
http://skitch.com/christieday/gg2sr/dribbble-...
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Use of 'read more' on teaser copy on index pages - is it necessary?
I have noticed that on a lot of news web sites that they no longer tend to use a 'click here' or a 'read more' link at the end of teaser text as a call to action. They tend to rely on the Article ...
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Is "Read more" a good link text?
Excerpts of posts displayed on a blog index page usually end with a link saying "Read more", "Continue reading", or similar.
Now, it's very well understood why "click here" is not a good link text, ...
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Why shouldn't we use words such as 'here' and 'this' in textlinks?
Over the years of surfing on the web I have found numerous examples of people saying that you shouldn't use the word "here" in a textlink etc. Personally I like the idea of using the word, because it ...
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What is an elegant way to distinguish a normal link from a bookmarklet link?
How do you visually tell to your user that a given link is a bookmarklet so it should not be clicked but just bookmarked?
Is there a proper and recognized icon to use to alert the user that a given ...
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"View Newsletter Online" link to be visible in online version?
When you receive an HTML or Text Newsletter, you'll often see a "Having trouble viewing Newsletter? View Online" link at the very top of the email. When you click on it your web browser fires up and ...
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Using hyperlinks for navigation and commands on the same page
I am working on a government web application. We have specified in the style guide that buttons will be used for primary actions and other secondary actions within the page will use hyperlinks. There ...
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Is it a good idea to add tooltip to some text that says exactly the same?
Having tooltips on icons and images is understandable and the same goes for small pieces of links where tooltips may elaborate to the user what that particular link would do. Sometimes, however, ...
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Preventing impossible clicks
I've posted a discussion on MSO with the same title (but the title was changed). It's about disabling elements that can be clicked but lead nowhere. For instance dead links. Currently, the 404 error ...
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CMS - Advice on how to link to site?
We have a Content Management System (near enough).
The picture below is the Administration page, which is a flex based front end, viewed in a browser.
If you think of admin pages with most CMS, like ...
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When should hyperlink text be used?
Should text links always be text or are there cases when it makes more sense to simply link the URL?
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A text link might look like this: Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design ...
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Best way to help people understand they can buy domains by clicking on them?
Our client runs panabee, a site to help people brainstorm catchy names for domains, blogs, and mobile apps.
We are researching the best way to help people understand they can buy domain names by ...
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Are tag/word clouds useful?
A lot of blogs or other types of sites with a lot of content use tag clouds, where trending words are shown and popular words are displayed larger. For example
Should you put a tag cloud on your site?...
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Hyperlink the verb or the noun?
I'm telling users to get something and where they can get it. Should I hyperlink the action or the destination? Which of the following would be easier for the user to parse and execute?
You need to ...
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Should same page interactions be underlined with a dashed line?
Should there be a visual distinction between a link and a AJAX like interaction? I quite often see that dashed underlining triggers an action on the same page. Is this a new convention? Would that ...
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iPhone app link : AppStore + Website or only Website
I'm currently redesigning my personal web site and I want to link to my different iOS apps. I have currently two links for each of my apps : Website and AppStore.
But is the AppStore link is really ...
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When should hyperlinks be underlined?
Have you noticed that more and more websites have removed underlines from hyperlinks? For example, the current beta test of Google doesn't have underlines on the search results.
Google, along with ...
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Are links with images more likely to be clicked on?
I am working on making the home page of a blog, and I want as many people as possible to click on the posts in the home page and read them.
I'm thinking of listing the post title, and then a quick ...
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