How do you not display underline in hover over?

Question

I have the following text code in a WikiTree free space:

[[F80156|Lowe-2022]]

It displays as Lowe-2022 and when I hover over it with my cursor I see F80156 in a "pop up window". 

How can I do the same thing but have it display as Lowe-2022 (without the underline)?

Thanks and sincerely,

 

Answer 1

Remove the double brackets and F8016

Comments

Great answer, Brett!!!  It had not occurred to me to look at the content of the link, so I had not noticed that it is not a valid place to link to.  THANX for seeing that there is no reason to have a link there and the "address" part of it is completely superfluous.

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Glad I could help Gayle. I have just been working with double brackets so I'm familiar with that. I'm certainly not a tech though. All the best, Brett

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Brett and I may not be understanding each other )-:

I need F80156 to display in a "pop-up window" when someone hovers their cursor over Lowe-2022.  Is there a way to do that without hyperlinking somewhere and not having Lowe-2022 underlined?

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Now we are past my skill level. Sorry Peter.

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Brett,  Peter isn't past your skill level - he's past markup capability!!!

Peter, the only way I can think of to make that happen to use a graphic like this::

1. Capture a screen that has the text:   Lowe-2022    displayed.  That way we will have the identical font that is used - size, color, and face.
2. In a graphic editor, open a new document and paste what you captured in there.
3. crop the image to ONLY the Lowe-2022 part, make a note of its width (in pixels), and then save as a jpg file.
4. Upload the image to a free space page somewhere.
5. Put the image in your profile with the following:

{{Image
|file = name of image
|size = # of pixels width
|label = F80156
}}

That is gooing to display Lowe-2022 centered, on its own line, but when you mouse over it you will see the F80156.  If you want this to be inline with text, then after you have the image in there, let me know the profile and I will go and finish fixing it up - that is going to be extremely difficult to do, let alone to explain here.
 

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Many thanks!  I will have to try live with the underline and hyperlink to no where (-;  Sincerely,

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Sorry to burst your bubble, Peter.  I have been restraining myself from asking, but I am dying of curiosity as to why you would want to do this.  Also, if the name does not appear as a link, then how would people know to hover their mouse over it in order to see the additional information?

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I want to do this so I can connect WikiTree IDs and GEDmatch.com IDs of autosomal DNA triangulated groups with their ancestral lines as revealed by WikiTree's Relationship Finder.  See

http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/145842/use-audna-triangulated-groups-with-the-relationship-finder

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Oh my gosh!!!!  I was much better off when we were talking about coding - that I understand.  Now I'm in your world, Peter, and don't even understand the language!!!

Anyhow, I looked at the page.  You have a nice table there.  Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to just display the numbers instead of leaving them mysterious to see only by hovering over them?  Couldn't you just put something like:

Doe-1 (123456)

in there and let people see these numbers without having to only be able to see one at a time when they hover over an ID?

 

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Thanks Gaile,

WikiTree's Relationship Finder can find the shared ancestry between as many as five people. So you want to be able do one copy of up to four WikiTree IDs (in bold) so you can do one paste into WikiTree's Advanced Filter field.  That is why you don't want Doe-1 (M123456).

For example see the 4-way triangulated group on chromosome 20.

Sincerely,

Answer 2

Hi Peter,

That's a good question but unfortunately it has a very easy answer:  You can't!

WikiTree controls the display style of links, which is green and underlined.  The "popup" that displays when you hover over any link is browser controlled - it displays the web address of the link so that you know, before clicking it, where you will be going when you do.

Although using underline for links is a very dated practice in web page design and there are much prettier ways of doing it, it does make a lot of sense for WikiTree to control how links are formatted.  That way, the look and feel is unified across the entire website, which helps makes it intuitive for users.