Re: Hyperlink styling

Greg Amerson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.editor
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Neil wrote:
> Apparently the editor disables something called the preference 
> stylesheet which among other things sets the default text, background 
> and link colours. The styles were added to restore the appearance of 
> links, although I guess they didn't try it out on styled links.
> 
> The reason that "Remove Link" changes your <a> to a <span> is that the 
> editor has no reason to remove your inline style, so it doesn't. For a 
> similar example, consider changing a list from an <ol> to a <ul>, why 
> should the editor delete the inline style?
> 

Ok, it does make sense now why they would reapply the styles to that 
section of text.

So I still wonder if it would be safe to comment out this section in the 
EditorOverride.css.  I just don't want to break something else in my 
editor-based application by trying to allow custom styling of link text.

Thanks for the feedback.

Greg
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