Unintentional underscore appearance

it's there, it's not there, weirdo underscore

[TvED]

Anyone ever have an "it's there, it's gone, it's back" scenario with an underscore? It seems associated with linked gifs? it'll disappear, then reappear using forward and back. (upper left on my "Get-Involved" page, right hand side on my "Donate Now" page.)

(I've come at this from painting, so please be easy on me.)

[joshie76]

hi TvED, welcome to WmW

This is usually because the image is inside a link (and pseudo hover classes are being used)

Get rid of any whitespace between your <a>, <img> and </a> tags. ie.:

<a href="..."><img src="..." width="..." height="..." etc="..."></a>

<added>OK, just had a look at your site and I couldn't see the problem you mention.</added>

[TvED]

joshie76

You know, I checked those out and that doesn't seem to be the case, grrr.

[TvED]

Could this possibly be a browser thing? It happens to me both on my work pc and my home mac, at least on ie (I'd given up on this for a while, til I found you all--can't remember re netscape)
Did you use the back button?

Thanks for you help...

[joshie76]

Specifically, which images are the problem?

[Key_Master]

I don't see it either using MSIE 6.

[TvED]

Take my donate now page, for example. It loads, likely looks fine. You hit the back, then forward, one or more of the buttons at right is likely to have an underscore beneath it. If you back and forward again, the underscore may well be under a different button.

[TvED]

(By the way I *think* I'm not going crazy)

[Key_Master]

I see it now. I think you can fix that using CSS and maybe even trim some font fat.

Example from my site:

a:link {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
color: #000080;
}

a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
color: #000080;
}

a:hover {
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #c0c0c0;
text-decoration: none;
}

[Craig_F]

I can't see it in IE 6 either. I've had this happen where even removing white space didn't help. In the end I just redid the offending page section and that seemed to fix it.

[hasbeen]

I don't see it on IE6, Mozilla 0.9.9 or NN 4.74. Sorry.

[TvED]

Ok, so it doesn't show on my colleague's computer. (So I am crazy, though I've seen it at home, too.)

I use Dreamweaver and have underscore link in css in parts of the site. Could this in some way affect my individual machines?

Does no one else see this, for real? Cause then I'll just return to my previous denial mode.

[TvED]

Key_Master, I'll check that out, thanks.

[TvED]

Craid_F,
Thank you! I'm so relieved to have company in this.

[Purple Martin]

Sorry, can't see it in IE 5.5