Countless information on the Internet is essentially composed of HTML documents, and they are connected to the entire Internet through links. This is like flesh and blood to the human body. Only through meridians can they be connected together to form a complete human body.
It seems to be the most basic tag, but it is a crucial and indispensable tag in HTML documents. This <a /> tag is a link between the links between pages and plays a role as a bridge. This bridge also appears in various ways on the page, and different websites decorate it in different ways, but the ultimate goal is the same - giving users a more intuitive and user-friendly link prompt.
<a />The tag can be set in HTML documents with different prompt methods and different opening methods. This article only provides a simple analysis of these two aspects. You are welcome to add more information.
Link prompts:1. The text is colored and underlined: This is the default link prompt method for the browser. It can clearly tell users where you can click on links and where you don’t have links. Many websites use this default link prompt method, such as Sina.com and Sohu.com. However, it is inappropriate for this link prompt method to appear on the news list page. The text on the news list page basically belongs to the title, that is, they are all clickable. Since the text on the entire page is clickable, it seems that it is completely unnecessary to use this method to prompt the link, and the entire page is underlined, which will cause a serious sense of visual fatigue. This method can be used to complete the prompt tasks of the link itself well if it appears on content pages with few links;
2. The text has color and no underline: This is the link prompt for many websites on the news list pages. This method is suitable for applying it on news list pages, removing the annoying underscores of the entire page. There are also many websites that apply this prompt method to the content page because it highlights the difference between the link text and the content text. However, in my opinion, there is no better way to apply this method to the content page;
3. The text has no color and no underlines: This is another way to prompt links in news list pages. Since the text on the entire page is linkable, it seems that whether the text has color or not seems to be negligible, because it has no special meaning, except for the use of colored text to beautify the page. There are also some websites that apply this prompt method to content pages, such as the content page of Pupu.com. This requires moving the mouse to the link text before prompting linkability by changing the color and underscores of the text. The premise of using this prompt method on the content page is that the link is only an optional accompanying item for the content itself;
4. Underline is a dotted line: This is a very special reminder method, which is basically applied to the pop-up ad link in the content page.
In my opinion, the best way to prompt the link is: the news list page does not show an underline, and the link text of the content page is underlined. As for whether the link text should have a color, it mainly depends on the design of the page.
How to open the link:1. Jump on the current page: This is also the default link opening method in the browser. Compared with a bunch of tabs or browser windows that pop up, jumping the current page is undoubtedly the most concise and comfortable. Naturally, this has become the default opening method of the browser. However, this is not the case in practical applications. If the link is on the news list page, then the problem of jumping on the current page is not big. However, if the link text is on the content page, it seems unreasonable to jump on the current page. Jumping on the current page means that the browser will discard the current data. However, the link text of the content page is mixed in large segments of content, which is a logic to give relevant information about the current text. When the user reads the link text naturally, he will click to view the relevant information. It is impossible to click on the link text before jumping after reading the complete text;
2. Pop-up page jump: This is the safest and most commonly used link opening method. Using this method of opening link text in the content page can maximize the user's current reading behavior, and provide relevant information to the greatest extent while ensuring the smoothness of the user's information acquisition;
3. Pop-up layer display: This method of opening is generally used to briefly interpret the current link text, and of course it is also used to display the advertisement.
What kind of link opening method has a certain impact on users, but the greater impact comes from the unity of link opening method. Similar linking methods adopt a unified current page jump or pop-up page jump, which only affects whether the user is smooth in use. However, if similar link opening method is the current page jump and the pop-up page jump, what brings the user is not whether there is a smooth operation, but makes the user feel confused.