The mouseover font color is defined as the parameter variable, overFnt . This has to do with the CSS padding property. Unfortunately, the two browsers do not handle padding in the same way. Explorer displays what is expected, according to the CSS spec. The problem is a little more complex than that.
Navigator actually adds space between the padding and the border.
Whenever a border is used, this 3 pixel addition cannot be avoided. The Netscape documentation screenshot is a demonstration of the padding and border CSS properties. The CSS background-color property is used to shade the content and padding. We have used this property many times in our columns. Its first appearance and discussion was in Low Bandwidth Rollovers .