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Asked: 2026-05-18T06:20:33+00:00

I just converted a site to Blueprint CSS today, and suddenly all my hyperlinks

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I just converted a site to Blueprint CSS today, and suddenly all my hyperlinks are showing their URL’s in brackets, e.g.

This hyperlink

<a href="Products/List.aspx">Read more</a>

Renders like this

Read More (Products/List.aspx)

I wonder if this might be related to one of the bundled plug-ins in Blueprint?

ADDED: The link renders normally, i.e. the unwanted url part is being generated client-side. Folks have asked for source code, so here it is (irrelevant text removed):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
    <link href="Styles/Blueprint/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="Styles/Blueprint/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" href="Styles/blueprint/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
    <a href="Products/List.aspx">Read more</a>
</body>
</html>

SOLVED: By removing the ‘print.css’ sheet that all tutorials suggest including, I was able to solve the problem in this example and my whole site. I’m still very curious as to why the venerable ‘print.css’ is acting up like this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s likely you have something like this in your CSS:

    a:link:after { content:" (" attr(href) ") "; }

    That will produce the behavior you describe.

    Typically, you would only use this kind of style for the print version of your stylesheet.

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