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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:52:45+00:00

The Goal: On mouseover (or :hover), enlarge the preview image by about 400% and

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The Goal:

  • On mouseover (or :hover), enlarge the preview image by about 400% and display it in the center of the page
  • Remove the preview when the mouse leaves

The Problem:

  • Solutions like FancyBox are too bloated
    • in FancyBox’s case it ignores width and height for image elements, which makes it useless
  • Most of these “lightboxes” steal focus when they’re called

Really, I’m just looking for a simple, efficient solution.

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  1. Editorial Team

    try something like this. the trick is position you can put the div wherever you want.
    read something here. and you can read about hover here

    here is an html example. (copy this to a text file and open it withyour browser)

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
  <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
      <title>Test</title>
      <script text="text/javascript" 
          src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.js">
      </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <ul>
      <li class="">Lynx</li>
      <li>Jaguar</li>
    </ul>
    <div id="picture" style="position:absolute; top:0px; right:0px;">
    </div>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    var animal = {
        "Lynx": 
          "http://wnbaoutsiders.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/lynx21.jpg",
        "Jaguar" : 
          "http://www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/image-files/jaguar.jpg"
      }
    var hovered = function(e) {
      //you can get what to show from the elemnt, instead of the content
      // you could use an id.
      var name = $(e.target).html()
      $('#picture').append("<img src='" + animal[name] +"'/>")
    }
    var unhovered = function() {
      $('#picture').empty();
    }
    //here you bind mouseenter and mouseleave
    $('li').hover(hovered, unhovered);
  </script>
  </body>
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