Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I haven't paid attention to Contextual links for a while, but as I recently started looking at it more closely. I feel its a bit off, its styling is very unconventional to the rest of Seven. I would like to clean this up, soon - so we can assure a unique visual style as portrait by xmacinfo in #601150: Improved UI for contextual links in #167.
Suggestions :
- Lose the background on each link (move to underline)
- Change colouring to Seven styling
- Add some more transparency
- Change the border to be less intrusive
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
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| #1 | contextuallinksvisualtweak.jpg | 16.59 KB | Bojhan |
Comments
Comment #1
Bojhan commentedSo just trying something out
Comment #2
yoroy commentedyo.
Comment #3
kika commentedtrackin this
Comment #4
jacineYeah, I agree it is a little off. I would especially like to see the blue background color gone and agree that underline would be better.
Just a note for the actual patches: Seven-specific styles belong in the Seven theme, not contextual.css. Seems like this could end up being 1/2 and 1/2, so I'm just throwing that out there :D
Comment #5
Bojhan commentedSo first, lets remove the arrow-pointing-down. I believe this adds unnecessary clutter, although its an affordance that is initially required - I doubt removing it will cause much problems. Since its an interaction you will need to learn, even with that affordance.
Comment #6
jacineI have no attachment to the down arrow. That sounds fine to me. :)
Comment #7
seutje commentedsubscribe
Comment #8
Bojhan commentedBartik is already looking better with this styling.
Comment #9
wim leersThis is no longer relevant. Today, contextual links look vastly different and vastly better. If they should still be improved, then a new issue should be opened, because this discussion is (fortunately! :)) hopelessly outdated.