Using :hover for an element's inline style (using HTML/CSS/php)

Question

Possible Duplicates:
How do I embed an “a:hover{…}” rule into a style attribute in the middle of a document?
How to write a:hover in inline CSS?

I want to dynamically change the hover colour of an element, but not using external CSS stylesheets, only inline. This is the code (using php to generate the element)

echo '
<div class="container" style="color:#'.$color.'">
  '.$contents.'
</div>';

When the user hovers over this container element, the color style will change to the value of $color (at the moment there is no hovering).

Any help would be appreciated.

Solution 1

This will help you if javascript is appreciable

<TD onMouseOver="this.bgColor='#00CC00'" onMouseOut="this.bgColor='#009900'" bgColor=#009900>
<A HREF="http://www.mysite.com">Click Here</A></TD>

or

Javascript Change Hyperlink Text Color Onmouseover

<style type="text/css">

a {
font-weight:bold;
font-family:verdana;
text-decoration:none;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function changeColor(idObj,colorObj)
{
    document.getElementById(idObj.id).style.color = colorObj;
}
</script>

<a href="#" style="color: #000000" onmouseover="this.style.color='#FF0000'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#000000'">
    Link 1</a>
<br />
<br />
<a href="#" style="color: #999999" onmouseover="this.style.color='#008000'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#999999'">
    Link 2</a>
<br />
<br />
<a href="#" style="color: #FF0000" onmouseover="this.style.color='blue'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#FF0000'">
    Link 3</a>
<br />
<br />
<a id="lnk1" href="#" style="color: #008000" onmouseover="changeColor(this,'#FF0000');"
    onmouseout="changeColor(this,'#008000');">Link Color change using javascript function</a>

Solution 2

You can't, since you can't set the pseudo-selectors inline. Ideally, you should design separate classes in your external css which would represent the various hover states you need, and in PHP assign these classes to your content.