Ketan,
I don't often toggle font-weight on hover between bold and medium because
it changes the width of the text, affecting word-wrap and container-width
and therefore layout. On the other hand, merely changing font-color by
itself can be an obscure signal for people with color-blindness and other
visual acuity issues. I would favor methods such as dramatically toggling
the brightness from pale to dark, toggling the border-bottom from dotted to
solid, reversing the color/background-color contrast, etc.
Logically connecting objects that are separated on the page can be easy,
for example with matching class names:
<li class="aardvark">
...
<ul class="aardvark">
matching ids & class names:
<li class="aardvark">
...
<ul id="aardvark">
or ids that match except for differing prefixes:
<li class="category_aardvark">
...
<ul id="links_aardvark">
It's easy to connect such deliberately-identified elements on page-load.
Paul
At 12:14 PM 7/22/2005, Ketan M. Vakil (518-506-6812) wrote:
Thanks for the responses guys. I was thinking of another method -
especially because the items are not necessarily kept together in
their grouping. (The idea is to display a client listing with links
of categories down the side - if you hover on a category the client
names that match the type of work done then become bold...)
I was thinking of just setting up 6 or 7 duplicate layers for each
category (with classes changed on the highlighted items) and show/ hiding
layers on link hovers as needed...
It may get too hairy as someone mentioned to keep track of groupings
especially when things are not actually grouped together with their
corresponding category.
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