Hi again -

I have an issue now where I have a short, right-aligned text grouping at the bottom of my page which offers a copyright statement and a link to a privacy policy. in that order. (See http://linuxdev.outofchaos.com/hamiltondev). The privacy policy text becomes bold on mouseover which makes the text grow or shrink depending on the font, and when this occurs the copyright text before it shifts to the left or right as a result. I was able to get around this issue on the footer navigation by giving each menu option its own space to live in so that its metamorphosis doesn't affect anything else, but I am having difficulty with this bottom one because it is right-aligned. Anyway, I think I can get something similar to work, but it just seems that this should be handleable in CSS alot easier than having to supply a width to a container element. Is there some CSS definition that will allow text to expand into its own padding, for instance? Any ideas?

As a side-note, in scouring the web for a solution, I found that many authors simply swap to a more pronounced color on mouse-over to achieve a bold look without actually bolding. I suppose this method is so popular precisely due to the problem I'm having.

Nevermind - I ended up doing what I was trying to avoid...making a block element around the word to be bolded, just a bit bigger than the word to be bolded, so that the word can expand without adjusting other elements that are outside the block. Seems like alot to go through for this simple effect.