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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Button click ONLY - coding (newbie question)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:59:49 +0100
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bit-naughty@hotmail.com writes:

> I have a button on my webpage (a picture), which I want to "glow" when
> the button is clicked.
> So the sequence of events is like this:
>
> mouseover: <do nothing>
> mouseclick: <show the "glowed" picture, ie. it has to be got from the
> server and shown - IMMEDIATELY!>
> mouserelease: <go back to unglowed picture>
> ...and then, go to the new page (whatever the link points to).
>
> I'm a little confused how to code all of this..... can anyone help? :)

You may be able to do this to your satisfaction using a simple CSS rule.
Display the glowing version when the link state is active.

-- 
Ben.