> ... what is causing the annoying horizontal jumping when you mouse over
> the links to song lyrics on this page?
> http://www.rockfind.com/little_river_band/
> Not my site, I just came upon it and was wondering ...
> I've only looked at it in FF 1.5 for Linux.

The first thing to learn would be to use a subject that make sense
even when you don't know the content of the email. Imagine someone
looking in the archives for "links jumping on hover" - it'll be so
much easier to find the thread if that were the subject and not a
cryptic nothing like this here.

The cause is that he uses bold on hover and normal style for links.
Then he uses all of those in a table without any measurements. Bold
text takes more space than normal weight text, this is why the width
of the table column changes when you hover over the links - and that
makes the whole lot shift around.

So the learning is: If you use bold for hover, fix the size of the
containing element, too, else it'll expand and contract and give a
jumpy impression.

--
Chris Heilmann
Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com
Writing: http://icant.co.uk/
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