[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42801: Theme Twenty Seventeen - Why Link underline?

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#42801: Theme Twenty Seventeen - Why Link underline?
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 Reporter:  ReikoDD       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes        |     Version:  4.9.1
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close         |     Focuses:
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Changes (by Cheffheid):

 * keywords:   => close


Comment:

 In general, having underlines on links is a good idea from an
 accessibility perspective. It's important for widgets like the Custom HTML
 widget and for any widget that does similar things - where you could have
 links in bits of content that would otherwise go unnoticed very easily
 without that visual indicator. This is why twentseventeen is adding a
 generic link style with box-shadow underlines.

 I think making a change like that and removing them is going to do more
 harm than good. I feel that this is something you should deal with through
 a child theme of twentyseventeen or the Additional CSS function in the
 Customizer. Or use the core tag cloud widget.

 Personally, I'd probably drop something like this in the Customizer if I
 really needed to change the way either of those plugins look:

 {{{
 .widget .st-tags, /* Simple tag cloud */
 .muki_tag_cloud a /* Muki tag cloud */ {
         box-shadow: none;
 }
 }}}

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