How to style string as a href

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string link = "<a href= \"https://www.google.se\">https://www.google.se</a>";

how could i style this string= i want to use color on it?

Posted 20-Jan-15 5:37am

Kurac1

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jaket-cp 20-Jan-15 11:42am

What do you mean colour the string?
If you mean style the generated html on the web browser, I may get what you mean.

Kurac1 20-Jan-15 11:43am

yes to style it

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-15 11:47am

And what prevents you?
—SA

Kurac1 20-Jan-15 11:50am

why does not this work? var lbl = new Label();
lbl.Text = link;
lbl.ForeColor = Color.Blue;

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2015-01-20T05:51:00

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The browser should automatically style the link for you.
For the basics on CSS styles for anchors, try http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_link.asp[^].

Posted 20-Jan-15 5:51am

Abhinav S

Updated 20-Jan-15 5:52am

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Kurac1 20-Jan-15 14:11pm

Yes but this will style all my ahref links

Abhinav S 20-Jan-15 16:10pm

Then create a css cxlass and apply it only to this link. That will solve your problem.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2015-01-20T05:46:00

If this is real anchor, you just use CSS for anchor pseudo-classes, a:link, a:visited, and so on: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp[^].

Try not to deviate from commonly accepted styles too far: the users should easily recognize links.
CSS color properties are color and background-color.

If you mean that you want to put not a real anchor, but render the strings showing the anchor syntax, first escape HTML using HTML character entities: http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/html_entities.asp[^].

And then, style it the way you like. If you have even the basic idea how CSS works (it is mentioned in your question tags), you know how to do it. If not, see this and find documentation by links on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets[^].

—SA