Title: Interferes with css background
Last modified: October 31, 2017

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# Interferes with css background

 *  [kashmiri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kashmiri/)
 * (@kashmiri)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interferes-with-css-background/)
 * The plugin interferes with anchors where theme adds a background image or colour.
   In some cases (where theme reverses text and background colours), the plugin 
   makes the link text invisible.
 * The following change in sem-external-links.css solves the problem:
 * `a.external_icon:after { content: url(external.png); padding-left: 3px; }`
 * My suggestion is to incorporate this change in the plugin by default.
 * Additionally, a svg image would be better suited for modern web than png.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interferes-with-css-background/)
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