Link Rollovers and Hovers

Changing the color of a textual link when the mouse passes over it is generally called a mouseover or rollover. In CSS it is referred to as a hover. Copy/paste the code below into your external style sheet.

If you are not familiar with the different methods of CSS and how or when to use them, be sure to read our article, "External, Internal or Inline? Which Method is Best?"

In this example, note that every link rollover on the page will be red. You can change the color to whatever you like including using hex color codes with a leading # character. The second example code snippet illustrates this procedure.

Example 1:
a:hover { color: red;}

Example 2:
a:hover { color: #FF0000;}