Remove color behind hyperlink

[mufc]

I have great success creating my own or modifying other recipes for best readability of my sony ereader. One thing I wanted to do and did was remove the hyperlink properties using
a {text-decoration: none; color: black;}
a [href] {text-decoration: none; color: black;}
I have tried but failed to remove the highlight background from the hyperlinks.
They highlighted background does not show up when reading in Calibre but does when reading on my ereader. Am I correct in assuming that I need to change something in the css of epub output ? If so where is this file and what is it called ?
Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

you can't change that in css. To change that you have to use preprocess_html and change a tags to span tags

[marbs]

if you do not want the link at all you could use remove_attrs to remove the href attribute

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by marbs

if you do not want the link at all you could use remove_attrs to remove the href attribute

This is what I recommend for link cleanup:

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for alink in soup.findAll('a'):
            if alink.string is not None:
               tstr = alink.string
               alink.replaceWith(tstr)
        return soup

This converts all links to text (less tags means safer rendering)

[mufc]

removed