making hover text glow in layouts...

Hey this is a neat place. But as you can tell I am new to everything,lol. Can anyone help me and show me a code I can put into my layouts where the text glows when I hover over text links in my layouts, and where do I put it in my codes when making and submitting a layout? All help is appreciated!!! Thank you very Much!!!

Ps. I also seen in layouts people make different effects on hover text like lighting and fire and what not. Can and does anyone know these codes?

 

I assume that you are talking about myspace layouts?

 

yes, can you please tell how to make the text glow and other neat tricks? Thank you

 

Well, to do that, you will need to understand the basics of HTML and CSS. You'll then need to sort through the html of a myspace page and discover ways in which you can manipulate it based on the current html and css using the methods allowed by myspace, which is actually not even a "correct" method of emplementing css.

Basically, it's pretty complicated. If you are still interested I suggest you look at the basics of html and css.

If you just want to change the the look and don't really care how or why it works, there are plenty of free layout sites as well as myspace's own layout editor. I'd suggest you try the myspace layout editor first and then look at layout sites, but be careful which ones you choose.

 

to make a link change color when you hover over it

use the following CSS code

Code:

a:link {color: #FF0000}
a:visited {color: #00FF00}
a:hover {color: #FF00FF} /*** This being the color when you hover over it ***/
a:active {color: #0000FF}

 

That particular code may or may not apply to all of the links on a myspace page, though. On a myspace page there are a lot of classes, ids(which you cannot reference in your code because the pound symbol is filtered) and tags to sort through to be able to specify a particular area, set of text, image or link. A myspace page is a lot of jumbled/complex codes and structure and you aren't going to be able to change many visual elements in it without weeding through that code and picking out and finding out exactly how to reference that text, image, link or area that you want to change. If you'll look at practically any myspace layout you will see, most likely, almost a hundred complex selectors and extremely redundant properties.

So, while having a basic knowledge of css and knowing the hover pseudo is a start, it's not all that you need to know to be able to create myspace layouts or anything more than very basic hover effects on only some of the links on the page.