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Re: Link Address Visibility

  • Subject: Re: Link Address Visibility
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:46:32 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.html
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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Els wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Is there a CSS-driven way of diplaying the link address near links
>> (without the use of JavaScript)? Is there a CSS hack of some sort? I
>> would like to embed full URL's near the links in a printable version of a
>> page (and in a printed version links cannot be followed).
>> 
>> Thanks very much in advance even if the answer is no... I am willing to
>> use JS if there is no alternative.
> 
> Not sure if this is what you're after, but I'd just write the html
> like this:
> <a href="linkaddress">linktext<span> linkaddress</span></a>
> and in the CSS for screen:
> a span{display:none;}
> in CSS for print:
> a span{display:inline;}

That is an excellent idea, but it involves re-writing the content (about 400
pages in this case) to include <span> elements. I once wrote a
global/recursive search-and-replace tool for Linux, but it operates on
files, not on a database, which is where all the data is located. If I got
an sqldump, I can't think of a simple rule to mass-replace e.g.

<a href="TOKEN">link name</a>

<a href="TOKEN">link name<span> TOKEN</span></a>

I know it is possible, but it is not trivial to implement.

Roy

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