Question

I have a text link. When the user hovers over the text link, I want an image to be displayed elsewhere on the page. I want to do this using css. I thought it could be done simply with a single line of code in the link like an onmouseover but it seems that requires other code elsewhere on the page.

I tried using the a:hover with the picture I want to show as a background-image but I don’t think it can be manipulated to display in full instead of being clipped down to the size of the text link.

I see hundreds of results when I try to search for this but none of them are what I want. The closest thing I found was this.

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css-image-gallery/

But that’s working with hovering over thumbnail images. I just want the user to hover over a single text link to have an image show on the page somewhere else. I found that gallery from this thread: Pop up image css link on hover

I don’t want to deal with whatever that jquery is or too much scripts because I’m more familiar with css. Does anyone know of a simple way to do this or is there still no way, not even with all the changes made for css3?

Thanks!

Answer 1

CSS isn’t going to be able to call other elements like that, you’ll need to use JavaScript to reach beyond a child or sibling selector.

You could try something like this:

<a>Some Link
<div><img src="/you/image" /></div>
</a>

then…

a>div { display: none; }
a:hover>div { display: block; }