Removing underline from inline Hyperlink

Question

I have some inline Hyperlinks in my TextBlock which I want to be displayed without their underline.

How do I remove it now TextDecorations is no longer a property?

Would be ideal if I could do this using a style so they are removed in all hyperlinks in my page.

Answer 1

As an aside? How would you know they are hyperlinks then?

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Answer 2

If I just used underlines to identify the hyperlinks its easy for them to get lost within the text as I can have many hyperlinks in a small passage of text, therefore I'm using a different color to differentiate it from normal text.

However the combination of separate colouring and underlines can cause the text to look cluttered and visually unappealing.

Answer 3

Got ya.  So yes.  You could use XAML and <Run> elements to customize the format.  You would need to manually build the text.  Do you have a copy of Programming Windows Sixth Edition?  I covers this in detail.

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Answer 4

I'm already manually building the text currently would have a sequence like this:

<Paragraph xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation'>
<Run>Behold some textual content! </Run> 
<Hyperlink NavigateUri="http://bing.com">bing.com</Hyperlink>
<Run></Run>
</Paragraph>

So how would I go about using the <Run> elements to remove the underline styling?

Answer 5

Wait, You want the Hyperlink to not appear as a Hyperlink but behave like one?  How would the user know it is one?

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

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Answer 6

See my prior comment ^ in my particular use case I'm using colour instead of underlines as the visual indicator for tappable text.

Answer 7

Is this possible or not?

Seems like it wont be now as TextDecorations property has been replaced with <Underline> which cant be used to remove existing underlines.

Answer 8

I have not had time to look at this yet.  I suspect no.

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

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Answer 9

i have this xaml:

    <Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
        <TextBlock FontSize="30">
            

                    <Run>Behold some textual content!</Run>
                    <Hyperlink NavigateUri="http://bing.com">bing.com</Hyperlink>
                    <Run></Run>


        </TextBlock>
    </Grid>

and this was the result:

and as you see no underline?

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Answer 10

It is not true with windows phone 8.1 RT project, it displays correctly in XAML designer, but with underline in device

Answer 11

I got around this by using inline TextBlocks and specifying t6he color. Only draw back of this was that there is no Click event to use - however you can use Tapped.

Answer 12

lol. sorry this was a terrible question. It's like you've never used a website before in your life;)

Answer 13

Well, using TextBlock's instead of inline hyperlink as you should be able to is terrible. Ended having to botch so many event handlers as TextBlocks and InlineHyperlinks have very different behaviour.