Remove <a> underline in Print medium?

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Remove <a> underline in Print medium?

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This question has certainly been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer to my problem. I understand mediums and love them. I thought this would be an easy one, but after investing several hours on trial an error, I just can't figure it out. If I set "text-decoration" for the Default medium to "none" of <a> to get rid of the underline in <a href> links, it disappears from online content but not from a PDF (the target is set to "print" medium). If I set an additional text-decoration "none" for Print medium, it still doesn't remove the underline. A color change (maroon) won't take in print either. If I add a font-size change, that takes, but the underline and original color (blue) remain. All these style changes show clearly in the friendly CSS window; in the text CSS, the "font-size" label (which works) is blue, but "text-decoration" and "color" labels (which don't work) are red; the values for all three are blue. There is no local formatting, just "Get more info at <a href="[%=Variables.DigiTrak-http%]"><MadCap:variable name="Variables.DigiTrak-www" /></a>. This behavior persists whether I use variables or plain text in the link path or text. I can make the underline disappear with local formatting "text-decoration: none;", but obviously I risk a public scourging by even suggesting that :) . I could create a separate style just for the xfef'd text, but that's so extra-workaround-stupid I haven't even tried it yet :). I also cannot use cross-references here because I am pointing to a website, not a location in the project. I checked in another project and got the same persistent underline. How/where do I get rid of it in the CSS? Many thanks!
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Re: Remove <a> underline in Print medium?

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Is there something further down in the stylesheet that's overriding it? Looking at your screenshot you've got at least 800 lines so something could be missed.

I'd try a search for text-decoration (if you haven't already) to see if there are any potential cascade effects.
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Re: Remove <a> underline in Print medium?

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If you change to Print Layout and Print medium in the XML editor and use the style inspector, this would probably tell you where it's inheriting its style from.
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Re: Remove <a> underline in Print medium?

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Check if you have any additional link classes in your stylesheet, such as a.active, that are inferring.
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Re: Remove <a> underline in Print medium?

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Thanks all for your suggestions. None were “it”, but they did get me to the answer!

SteveS: The only occurrence of “text-decoration” (TD) is in the Print Medium section, which has only the definition for <a>. I moved it to the main Default section, deleted the Print section, set the Target to use Default instead of Print, and still get an underline.

AlexFox: The Style Inspector clearly says “text-decoration: none” in the [first] Local Style Attributes section; no TD is inherited from <p> or <body>. Though if I take the TD-none completely out, the inspector still says “TD-none” but there is still an underline both in the XML window and the final PDF :-).

MeganTR: None of the pseudo classes have any additional styles set. I even tried setting pseudo Active to TD-none (again) and still get an underline.

I opened another project with a much smaller style sheet and the <a> underline will not go away there either. I created a brand new project and underline is defaulted to Inherit. I set the <a> style for TD to none, save, and…nothing happens in the XML.

But I saw another style in the text SS called “a:link” that had a color and weight assigned, so I added TD-none...and it worked. Went back to my actual project and was happy to see it work there too. Perhaps <a> alone just doesn’t reflect that attribute, even though you can set it. True or not, check this one off as resolved. Thanks again!
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