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September 9
[edit]HTML terminology
[edit]I'm trying to give feedback about the website of Current Affairs but I don't know how to put it into technical words.
There's a sitewide issue with linked text. Every time I interact with certain links the text awkwardly wiggles.
Example one: right-clicking the author's name Nathan J. Robinson makes the linked text smaller and then if one doesn't click anything and then moves the mouse repeatedly on the link and off the link the font looks different and it gets larger and smaller again and the entire rest of the text moves slighly up and down.
Example two: the first link after the drop capital. It doesn't even need to be clicked. Simply hovering over the link with a mouse then removing the mouse and then hovering again makes the sentence visually stretch and the link go from small caps to italic to non-italic.
Example three: all the rest of the links do some sort of a dance.
To summarise: what is this jiggle and morphing the links do called?
Or is this all just a problem at my end? My system: Desktop, Windows 10, Firefox browser, (Chrome tested, mostly the the same issues there as well). Aloysius Jr (talk) 23:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
- It's not a problem. It's link hover animation. (Or, at least, search for that and you'll get lots of good hits to dive into.) --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 03:43, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- This is CSS (styling code) acting on the HTML (content code) rather than the HTML itself, though I'd say the behavior is unpredictable enough that if it bothers you it's worth a feedback even if they intended it to behave in such an unpredictable way. - Purplewowies (talk) 07:54, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you both. Aloysius Jr (talk) 11:57, 11 September 2025 (UTC)