Getting Colours to Work in Links2

2024-02-22 - Getting Colours to Work in Links2.

If you try to visit this site using the webbrowser Links2 ^[links2] ,you'll see that the colour-theme that you see in, say FireFox or such is by-and-large the same.

This might seem like magic, if you ever have tried to do the same using CSS... as you'll probobly just get a gray background, black text and blue links.

The trick is to use ancient, html attributes for the <body> tag ^[body-tag]. The attribuses I'm abusing are as follows: color , bgcolor , link , vlink , and alink . These atrributes are ingored by other browsers if they you have a CSS avalible.

You can either look for the <body> tag in the code yourself, or you can have a look below:

  <body text="white" bgcolor="#151515" link="orange" vlink="darkorange" alink="gold">

And bob's-your-uncle, colours everywhere!

An image of what it looks like in Links2 can be found here.

Gustav.

Footnotes

[links2]: http://links.twibright.com/
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/links2 - Debian's sauce repo.
[body-tag]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/body
As you can see, they are marked as "do not use". :-)