Hover function that just works for text

[leonk09]

Okay I have a link that looks like this:

<style type="text/css">
a.link1:link, a.link1:visited  {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #000000;
	font-family: Verdana, Tahoma;
	font-size: 11px;
	}
a.link1:hover {
background-color: #000000;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #99CCFF;
	font-size: 11px;
}
</style>
<A href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mypage"[/URL] class="link1"><img src="pic.gif"><br>Description of link</a>

The gif image is mostly transparent, and I don't want the background color to change on the image, just the text.

Is there a way to do this?

 

[leonk09]

Thanks for all your help guys.

I have basically done what I wanted to achieve using javascript.

Here's the page:

http://www.pokerchipstack.co.uk/free-poker-chips.php

The script that does this has 12 different functions (it's ugly). Does this really matter too much?