URL in ads same colour as background

[esllou]

How come when I use banners and leaderboards, I can get the URL to be the same colour as the background (white) but when I use rectangles, if I put the bg and url as the same colour, it defaults back to black?

[sailorjwd]

That is the way Adsense forces visibility of the URL in that (and others) particular format... best you can do is make the URL a few shades away of the background.

The reasoning is beyond me.

[esllou]

yeah, I can understand that...but how come it is perfectly possible using 468 or leaderboard banners: white on white no problems!

[esllou]

right, just did a bit of experimenting.

If the ads have a lot of text and there are four of them in a leaderboard, they all get a bit bunched up and there is NO URL shown at all. (not that it's white on white)

this hardly ever happens with rectangles as they have a lot of width for each ad.

this is probably ancient news....