Lynx.css

About

A CSS theme that changes the style of a website to match the look and feel of the text web browser Lynx.

Lynx is the oldest web browser (released in 1992) that is still commonly used and in active development. For more information on what Lynx is and what it looks like, visit its wikipedia article.

Features

Lynx’s behavior added via CSS:

Lynx’s behavior added via JavaScript:

Lynx’s behavior that was improved:

Installation

Get the source code: https://gitlab.com/aguslr/lynx.css

To change the style of your website, download both the CSS (lynx.css) and the JavaScript (lynx.js) files into your website’s root directory. Then just add the following HTML code between the <head> and </head> tags in each of your web pages:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="lynx.css">
<script src="lynx.js"></script>

Fonts

It’s also recommended to add a good monospaced CSS font along with the previous code so that everything lines up:

Screenshot

You can see a comparison between Lynx running in a terminal (left) and Firefox (right), both displaying the demo page:

lynx-vs-firefox

Visit the demo page to see what a full-fledged HTML document (including tables, lists, images, etc.) looks like when using the theme with both CSS and JavaScript tweaks.