Text rollover with show/hide layer behavior

Question

How can I set text to change colors when you roll over it AND
to have it show/hide other layers at the same time, while still
keeping the new rollover color?
For instance, when you scroll over a word in a list, it
highlights that word, reveals more layers (ie, text and images),
and all that stays there until you rollover something else
Im using Dreamweaver 2004 and its been quite a while since
Ive been able to get into it.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Let's say you have the given content, some text in my example
in a layer identified as layer1.
<div id="layer1">some text</div>
In order to set a different font-colour at the mouseover
event you need to add this code to your css file:
#layer{
color:#000000;}
#layer:hover{
color:#DDDDDD;}
According to the code above the some text in the layer will
be displayed with black and at mouseover event it will be changed
to silver.
If you want to hide/show certain text you may use opacity
style attributum or implement something like the mootools slide
effect (
http://demos.mootools.net/Fx.Slide).
Hope this helps:)