I have a state map, and need to make it so that if the viewer rolls over different areas of the map (hotspots), it will make text appear in a div next to it. I know how to make rollover images appear that way, but is there a way to do it with actual text?

You can do that using Jquery. If you know Jquery here is the small snippet from my project

$('.wrap').hover(function(){
$(this).children('.front').stop().animate({"top": '300px' },1100);
},function(){
$(this).children('.front').stop().animate({"top":'0'},600);
});

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