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ability to "hide" links
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Author: tom

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Hello,

While I was doing some work for school, I had to read a big piece of text on
wikipedia. I found it a little bit annoying to read this because of all the links in
the text. It's not that i can't read it, but it would be much easier to really
concentrate on the text and understand it if there were no links, or if the links
were the same color as the text.

So:
Wouldn't it be a good idea to make a button the site to turn off links in text, or
change the color of in-text links to black? This would make reading the text way
easier.

I hope i've helped you with this comment...


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Severity: enhancement

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avarab wrote:

You can change the colour for links in your user CSS.

rowan.collins wrote:

You can also use the "printable version" link in the toolbox, which (among other
things, obviously) has exactly the effect you describe; amusingly, you can still
*follow* the links, you just have to guess where they are. ;)

While I doubt we'd add this built-in, I'm sure some enterprising lad or lass could whip
up a bookmarklet to change the link color on/off.

rowan.collins wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

While I doubt we'd add this built-in, I'm sure some enterprising lad or lass

could whip

up a bookmarklet to change the link color on/off.

Good idea. How about a quick hack of Jesse Ruderman's "zap colors" from
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets (turns all links plain and black, but
makes sure they're underlined on hover; they're still links, after all):

javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles=':link, :visited, :link *, :visited * {
color: black !important; text-decoration:none !important } :link:hover, :link
*:hover {text-decoration:underline !important};'; if(document.createStyleSheet)
{ document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else {
newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet';
newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } })();