Style External Links With CSS Substring Selectors
# Linked to 20 January 2008, 07:00 in Tips by Sam Brown
Many sites like to show their users whether the link they are about to take goes to an external site or not. This is quite a good usability measure in that users know that they will be leaving the current domain and can decide whether or not to open the link in a new tab/window etc. It can also help the less savvy user make sense of the sudden site style change.
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