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I've seen some pages having "glowing" text when you put your mouse over it, and it seems it's not a picture either. I tried checking the source for any information, but I couldn't find any. Anyone of you know the code to get links to glow? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

check out http://www.mompswebdesign.com/css/effects.html. It has what you want in addition to a few other CSS tricks.

cool, thanks!

Or if you really want to learn css, visit www.w3schools.com

Just so you know, the glowing text I've seen doesn't work it Firefox, and if its on a black background, I have to highlight all the text to read it .

emb92 wrote:Just so you know, the glowing text I've seen doesn't work it Firefox, and if its on a black background, I have to highlight all the text to read it :x .

That's okay, since the glowing text example there is a Microsoft IE extension. It will never work in Firefox.

i don't wanna disappoint you guys who use browsers like mozilla, firefox, opera, nestacape and the rest not so popular, but... IE is the best!

I say this from the webmaster's point of view. IE opens 99% the page i create, while the others browsers - only 80%

jetstorm wrote:i don't wanna disappoint you guys who use browsers like mozilla, firefox, opera, nestacape and the rest not so popular, but... IE is the best!

I say this from the webmaster's point of view. IE opens 99% the page i create, while the others browsers - only 80%

P.S. Hey al_tyranny, I think I've just found your new signature.

What are you talking about, not so popular browsers Firefox has been downloaded more than 100 million times. I'd have to say that's pretty damn popular. By the way, IE is the only browser that screws my pages up. I use safari, firefox and netscape to test my pages and they all render the same results. But the all mighty IE has different results everytime. Check out these articles on IE's security.

Test out the acid2 test on IE. Safari was the first browser to comply with web standards and pass this test and then konqueror. Here is what should be rendered by the test since I know that IE hasn't gotten it right.

So I guess if being more standard compliant and secure is disappointing, then I love disappointment. By the way, "from the webmaster's point of view", make sure your pages pass validation through W3C not IE.

emb92 wrote:Just so you know, the glowing text I've seen doesn't work it Firefox, and if its on a black background, I have to highlight all the text to read it .

Yep, it's an IE only feature, they're called filters I believe. That's the only cool thing that IE has that FF doesn't.

IE also supports sloppy coding styles, and uses many things that aren't standard.

The thing that bugs me about the IE web-masters is that most of them don't even let other browsers view their site! I mean, it may take a few extra minutes to make sure your page works in all browsers (that support standard coding, because the rest are automatically mediocre), but other than that you have no excuse.

Oh, I'm sure most of you have heard of the W3C validation forms (for both CSS and HTML), so it would be good to validate your pages.

EDIT: Crap, someone else pointed out the validation... Well, cheers for saying it before me.

Here's how to get this link highlighting to work in any browser:

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a:link {
  /* normal link style */
}

a:hover {
  /* link style when mouse is over it */
}

Didn't know that Firefox supports it. I didn't even know the hover pseudo-class until about a month ago. =)

mm_freak wrote:Here's how to get this link highlighting to work in any browser:

Code: Select all

a:link {
  /* normal link style */
}

a:hover {
  /* link style when mouse is over it */
}

Didn't know that Firefox supports it. I didn't even know the hover pseudo-class until about a month ago. =)

awesome! thanks...

If you dont care about Opera, you can read CSS things up directly on http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
my experience showed me that IE and Mozilla are close to the specifications. Just Opera seems to like to make his own ideas about various things...

jetstorm wrote:i don't wanna disappoint you guys who use browsers like mozilla, firefox, opera, nestacape and the rest not so popular, but... IE is the best!

I say this from the webmaster's point of view. IE opens 99% the page i create, while the others browsers - only 80%

Now if you wrote them all correctly they'd open on %100 of both.

Mine alway's do.

Not all of us like the IE option, It won't even run on the linux box ii've got.