popup menu

What decision is better?

[orion_rus]

Hello, i need an advice. I build a popup menu and need to know. To highlight an item in the menu what use would be better? hover? change style or make item with image and replace it onmouseover?

[vkaryl]

I don't know what's "better" from the point of view of overall usability/accessibility. I can only say from a user's POV that I prefer to see and use a simple hover color-change on text.

Graphics buttons always annoy me, for some reason. Besides there's the load time factor: the more graphics you have (even small ones) the longer the page takes to load on dialup....

[createErrorMsg]

change style or make item with image and replace it onmouseover

Using css rollovers (styling background color and/or image changes) allows for your links to be text (not images), both increasing accessibility and seo.