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Glow rollover?
Hi. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to apply glow as a rollover effect for hyperlinks? I’d like white text hyperlinks that glow slightly on mouseover.
Many thanks.
Martin
[quote:6c8689822e=”Martin”]Hi. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to apply glow as a rollover effect for hyperlinks?[/quote:6c8689822e]
That silence is the noise of Freeway experts across the globe mulling the question. :D
There is a CSS attribute for drop shadow which might partially fit the bill, but unfortunately it’s not supported by every browser yet.
I just found a mention of a CSS glow attribute over at W3Schools online: http://www.w3schools.com/dhtml/dhtml_css.asp?output=print
I’ll have to experiment to see how it works, but I suspect the "doesn’t work in every browser" caveat might still apply.
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I have a feeling it’s not possible, because glow text has to be graphic, and link text will be HTML.
[quote:1ff520da50=”Martin”]I have a feeling it’s not possible, because glow text has to be graphic, and link text will be HTML.[/quote:1ff520da50]
I don’t know, but if there’s an attribute, it should work. The problem is, I haven’t a clue what I’m looking for or how to implement it. :D
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Sometime around 19/10/06 (at 07:08 +0000) Martin said:
[quote:87927aec85]Hi. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to apply glow as a rollover effect for hyperlinks? I’d like white text hyperlinks that glow slightly on mouseover. [/quote:87927aec85] You need to define the different styles for the different link states - that’s been covered here recently. Then, for the ‘over’ style, you need to add the "text-shadow" attribute, using the Extended option in the Edit Styles dialog.
In the Name field type: text-shadow In the Value field type: 0px 1px 3px white
The values themselves are the shadow’s horizontal offset, the vertical offset, the amount of blur, and the colour it should be.
You can see a black shadow equivalent of that effect in the headline text at http://www.thehelpful.com/ - but although Safari shows this and although it is an official CSS technique, virtually no other browser handles it at all. In which case the text-shadow style element is simply ignored.
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