Individual link options

[gwpriester]

It would be cool for some links to work differently from others.

A simple example, text in a linked banner to be white with no underscore while text in the copy would be the default colors with an underscore.

So that there would be an override defaults option when adding a link.

[Acorn]

<sub>Gary, where do you stop? There is a trade-off for Xara's "no code" simplicity and having this and variations would be tantamount to Xara having to offer a CSS editor.
You can achieve what you need with with a Page Placeholder holding simple CSS statements and Naming the elements to give them an ID to link into the CSS.

The Xara default links' CSS for an entire site is:

a {text-decoration:underline;}
a:link {color:#0000EE; cursor:pointer;}
a:visited {color:#561A8B;}
a:hover {color:#0000EE;}
a * {color:#0000EE;text-decoration:underline;}</sub>

If you include this in your Placeholder, you then place #<ID_name> before each line and then change the green values above to what variety you need; W3Schools offers tutorials and examples to play with.

Personally, I believe that Xara should be generating Placeholder code and offering their examples in the Design gallery in the same fashion they currently do for 3rd Party Widgets.

Acorn

[Big Frank]

i agree with gary that there could be more wysiwyg freedom with links
especially considering thr web & page layout direction xara are traking

you should be able to resolve this reuqirement with a little creativity

if you create a style in your document, let's say HeaderBox
then in the web properties > website > html code (head) you add a little css

<style>
.HeaderBox { //here's where you put your link visited hover active colours}
.FooterBox { //ditto }
</style>

just make sure HeaderBox as a style exists in all pages
obviously you won't see this in your xara document but you shd see it in your preview

i would like to see this as a feature enhancement in future releases