[Accurate]

I have a few paragraphs on a page that I want to underline when the mouse goes over them... I know this can be done in CSS, but I only want this effect to happen to a few paragraphs.. is there any code I can insert around the selected text to make this happen? (the text isn't image, its actual text)

Many thanks!

[nakedintruder]

.wherethisisgoing a:active, .wherethisisgoing a:visited, .wherethisisgoing a:link{text-decoration:none}
.wherethisisgoing a:hover{text-decoration:underline}

[gray]

<p class="foo"><a href="">Foo Link</a></p>

.foo a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
}

is one way

[nakedintruder]

gray, links are underlined by default so you need to "turn them off" a:link as well, see above

[Brown]

is the text a link? if not, then why do you want people to think its a link?

[pgo]

If you mean the whole paragraph being underlined, you'll have to use gray's solution, which I would avoid, personally - as your visitors will think it's a giant link (which, according to the HTML, it actually is - it just doesn't go anywhere).

IE doesn't support the :hover pseudoclass on any element besides anchors, so you're out of luck going the simple route that you should be able to go:

<p class="underlineme">blah</p>

p.underlineme:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

That would work in Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc - but not IE.

Also something to consider - why would you want to make an entire paragraph underlined? That would make it much harder to read (not to mention confuse your readers like Brown suggests).

[Accurate]

Yes the texts are links... but I want the underline to appear when the mouse goes over.

Thanks for the posts so far, will give it a try!

[Accurate]

Originally Posted by pgo

Also something to consider - why would you want to make an entire paragraph underlined? That would make it much harder to read (not to mention confuse your readers like Brown suggests).

The paragraph is only about 9 words long...its more of a sentence. Its the clients request, it should look ok though.

[gray]

Originally Posted by nakedintruder

gray, links are underlined by default so you need to "turn them off" a:link as well, see above

i just presumed he already had them turned off earlier in the css

[Accurate]

I havn't applied any CSS yet to the page. This will be the next step...please don't remind me

[pgo]

Oh. I thought you meant a whole paragraph. Nevermind.

In that case, do what nakedintruder originally posted.