How can i make the liks of navbar bigger when they are in hover state?

Question

I have seen website navbar links get bigger when mouse pointer touch them. I tried to do that by making the font size bigger in hover state but I want the background to remain uneffected.Note that i have put the links of navbar in a div.The remaining content of the website is in another div. I want some help on the css code make what I want happen

Answer 1

use the css transform:scale() property