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CSS - Placing Text Over Rollover Images?
Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask, how to place a text over a rollover image. Most ppl recommend to set the image as background in table or div tag, but that would prevent to make the image a rollover. To put it simply, I want to create an effect, I have seen e.g. at ehow.com When you place your cursor on a button in the menu, the text gets underlined. When you place your cursor on a button in the submenu ("Browse How Tos"), the text gets ubderlined AND the image changes. Is this somehow a combination of rollover text and image? My question basically is: HOW DO YOU CREATE SUCH AN EFFECT? Thank you for your replies, Tomas Similar Tutorialsi want to place images: top right, middle right, bottom left, these images should float above any other images or content that is on the page, the must also stay in there positions when the browser is resized. I'm still new to css so can any body help me pls OK here is my setup. I have a 3rd party search on my page, the script produces results and the only edit I have access to is the css...(and the actual script ) not the <div> layout of the results page. The script generates a block and then an alt block for the search results with an image floating beside the text (if there is one available) My first problem was the amount of output text varies but does have a maximum.....I have fixed this by specifying the height of the result block to contain it. My real problem is the sizes of my thumbnail images vary and this allows my text to flow all around it if the image height doesn't fill the area as you can see in my screenshot. edit: apparently I can't post images but here is a link to the image http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/schmooot/various%20posted/sample.gif here is my css pertaining to the section Code:
.result_image { float: left; display: block; }
.result_image img { margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #EF3013; max-height: 75px; max-width: 75px; }
.result_block { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background: #BBBBBB; border: 1px solid #000000; height: 100px;}
.result_altblock { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background: #DDDDDD; border: 1px solid #000000; height: 100px;}
I would like the text to stay 80px from the left of the box always.....regardless of what size the image is. I attempted to force it by specifying the image width to be 75px and it did work but then it force resized my images to fit and some of them need to retain the aspect. I made them retain their aspect ratio by using the max-width and max-height attributes but now some images don't have the height to fill the space So really how do I make the 'block' containing the image to always be the same height of the text beside it (or just to always be 100px)...or force the text 'block' to stay with an 80px left margin. The image is within the text block as you can see in the output source below so I can't just add a margin to the block...also I cannot edit the actual <div> output as I do not have access to the place it is defined... but here it is for reference Code: <div class="result_altblock"><div class="result_image"><a href="item link"><img src="image" alt="" class="result_image" /></a></div><div class="result_title"><b>4.</b> <a href="link">Title</a></div> <div class="description">Description</div> <div class="infoline"></div> </div> <div class="result_block"><div class="result_image"><a href="item link"><img src="image" alt="" class="result_image" /></a></div><div class="result_title"><b>4.</b> <a href="link">Title</a></div> <div class="description">Description</div> <div class="infoline"></div> </div> Is there a way to define a text style where a dash and a space is automatically inserted after the text? If I want this: Subtitle and then content To look like this: Subtitle - and then content How can I do that? Thanks I have a blog and I want to put my text inside a border/wrapper. So I've made the border and sliced it up into 3 parts: top middle and bottom. I want to place the text content within the middle of this graphic and so I figure I need to make the sliced images as a background using css and then type whatever I want over it. So I did this but dont know what Im doing wrong: Code:
<style type="text/css">
top {background: url('/images/t1.gif') ;}
middle {background: url('/images/t2.gif') ;}
bottom {background: url('/images/t3.gif') ;}
</style>
<div class="top" id="top"></div>
<div class="mid" id="mid">
<div class="content" id="content">Content Goes Here</div>
</div>
<div class="bottom" id="bottom"></div>
Any help is appreciated. JH currently at my site i have rollover images on my menu which are gif files and have parallel gif files that are "lit up" which show when the user puts their mouse over the gif which looks very pretty and i like it, unfourtnatly it uses javascript. this creates a couple issues, one is that the user needs javascript for this too work, the other is i think it's casuing my page to load slow. someone said something about doing rollover images with CSS. im willing to try it but i don't understand or have a clue how to do this. also is using CSS any better? (speed wise most importantly) in IE the hourglass flickers...so i need to put a image on it and stuff......should i just overlap the image with negative margin or write text to a picture? hi all, I am trying to figure out how to have multiple CSS Rollover images with links on one page. Any ideas, tips, suggestions or samples are greatly appreciated! Brook I am just learning CSS and I found this site and they have a step through example, but I am having problem where they use body.about dt#about, body.about dt#about a, body.services dt#services, body.services dt#services a, body.portfolio dt#portfolio, body.portfolio dt#portfolio a, body.contact dt#contact, body.contact dt#contact a { background-position: 0 -100px; } to select different parts of an image to display. Also, supposedly, you put in the body tag of the index.html file <body class="about"> and it is supposed to use the about image, but I am unsure how to enable the others. Anyone have an idea. The code is too much to post here, but I could possibly email it if anyone needs it. I can't seem to find this solution anywhere I want an image rollover with CSS to work in IE, but IE hates me so I can't get it. Here is one of my buttons: CSS: #tab_nav #home_tab { background: url(images/home.jpg) no-repeat; width: 97px; height: 33px; cursor: pointer; } #tab_nav #home_tab:hover {background: url(images/home-over.jpg) no-repeat; width: 97px; height: 33px; } Here is the HTML too in case you want it: <div id="tab_nav"> <div id="home_tab" onClick="javascript:window.location.href='index.php';"></div> </div> Now, the rollover works well in Mozilla, but it doesn't work in IE. Does anyone know how I can acheive this? Thanks BTW, here is the page i have a basic html page which includes a number of hyperlinks using jpeg images... essentially <img> tags wrappped in <a> tags. i want to create a rollover effect with these links so that when a link is highlighted (mouseover) the jpeg image changes to another seperate jpeg impage. is it possible to do this with html/css and if so how can i do this? i have read about a method of doing this which combines both the original image (before mouseover) and the mouseover image into one single jpeg and changing the image's x-coordinate using css so that there is no preload/image flicker issues when the link is clicked on, but i'm not sure exactly how to code this. any help is appreciated. So, I'm pretty new to all this, and any help is really key. So, on my site, I have a lot of rollover images. I may be breaking usability rules! The site has a lot of hand drawn elements that are supposed to act as nav. So, we implemented hand drawn nav that changes color when you rollover it. The problem is that when you click on those rollovers, a big dotted box appears around the selected one... it looks especially tacky if you don't go over to the next page. All of these elements have this box. Is there a way to tell the browser not to show that selection box?? Good day all, I have set up my index page for my site with css rollovers instead of javascript rollovers, and I really like the loading time, the problem that I am having is that when I click on the image rollover link there appears a white box around the image. how can this be avoided? Please see the link below for what I am trying to explain... http://www.karmaimports.net/indexcss.htm thanks in advance... Brook Hi ! Me again :P So this is a simple test i made to try this out. But I ran into a problem. Take a look for yourself: (view-source for xhtml and css) http://fotoz.hit.bg/test/menu.html The problem is that annoying flickering that happens when you roll over. Any ideas how to fix it ? And most importantly why does it occur? Thanks! p.s I should explain what i wanted to do here. Basicly 1 big background image to the <div>. It will be holding the "over" state of all the buttons. At the same time the <a> elements will be holding images of the "normal" state buttons, and when you hover over them they will disappear and you will see the "hover" state below. It works but I get the flickering with visibility:hidden and even if i just move the img out of the way I am trying to create a Horizontal Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menu, but instead of the css creating text i would like them to be images and when you hover over the links they rollover into a new image. I would really like your help on this been trying to do it for weeks now!! Cheers I need to get away from "text-graphics" as much as possible because I am writing multilingual apps where the translator configures the translations of all the control words that appear on the menus. Besides it causes downloading lots of little images and this is not good. I would like to do a submit button in a form with a rollover, using the background-image property. Any text on that button is just superimposed on the image via html form. This will be bandwidth friendly as well as easier to make a translation, as I can use the same background image for all the buttons and if the user wants to reskin it all he has to do is put a different bg grc in the css file and resize it. Here is what I have to mess with right now: Code:
#button_btn1 {
font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 12pt;
background-image: url(http://localhost/~me/testing/img/BlurMetalLa7.gif);
color: #003300;
border: none;
height: 24px;
width: 126px;
cursor: help;
}
Code: <form action="foo.php"> <input type='submit' id='button_btn1' name='submit' value='Click me' /> </form> It displays the image all right, now I want to rollover. It seems like I need to write a javascript invoked onMouseover to alter the background-image property. I don't know how to do this. I've looked at rollovers that fool with the visibility property and I've even messed with them myself, but they seem very dicey and with each new brower version they break in yet another novel way. I'm having a problem getting the text of an <a> tag to be what I want where I want. No one in the javascript forum wants to tackle this. maybe it is a css thing. I made this interlocking tabbed menu which I do by javascript updating the position of the background graphic and its neighbor. I have done buttons before with a background and text overlayed. but they were always <input>'s and whatever I put in the value field just kinda showed up on top of the background graphic. These are actually <a>'s I assumed the text I put in between the <a> and the </a> tag would just show up but it doesn't. I tried making special divs for them but then I run in to position problems. If I make it absolute the first one is fine, then they all pile on top of it. If I make it relative, NONE of them show. Here is a test http://colleenweb.com/tests/bartest.php There is nothing like css for turning my brain into industrial waste. This has to be doable. Someone who understands this stuff please advise? I have a menu with several links each of which has a span tag connected, when you hover over the link the span tag is revealed as a roll over text. However I have also made the whole page (the page size is controlled by JavaScript) an anchor tag and placed a span for that, so there is a default text which is replaced by the other roll over text. This works fine in Firefox. However, I'm having problems getting this to work properly in IE6. It doesn't reveal the span for the whole page, although the other links are ok, it also reveals the text if I hover over where the rollover text appears. I have validated the CSS and XHTML. Is there a way to fix this or am I going to have to go back to JavaScript? [code] css: body { background: url(images/sips_menu.gif) no-repeat; } a.con { z-index: 1; } a.menu { z-index: 2; } /*set whole page as an invisible link*/ a.con:link,a.con:visited,a.con:hover,a.con:active { background-color: transparent; display: block; border: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 790px; height: 540px; text-decoration: none; cursor: default; } /*set span for whole page as visible only when hovering over page*/ a.con span { display:none; } a.con:hover span { color: black; font-weight: normal; display: block; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; position: absolute; top: 125px; left: 580px; width: 170px; height: 150px; } /*menu links - when mouse is over these it is not over general page anchor*/ a.menu:link,a.menu:visited,a.menu:hover,a.menu:active { background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; color: #617AB2; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bolder; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; padding: 4px 6px 4px 6px; } a.menu:hover { color: red; } /*menu link rollover text visible when mouse over*/ a.menu span { display: none; } a.menu:hover span { color: black; font-weight: normal; display: block; } /* Ids to position each of the menu links */ #one { position: absolute; top: 180px; left: 20px; } #two { position: absolute; top: 250px; left: 250px; } #three { position: absolute; top: 380px; left: 220px; } #four { position: absolute; top: 320px; left: 420px; } #five { position: absolute; top: 450px; left: 565px; } /* Ids to position the span tags*/ #a { position: absolute; top: -55px; left: 560px; width: 170px; } #b { position: absolute; top: -125px; left: 330px; width: 170px; } #c { position: absolute; top: -255px; left: 360px; width: 170px; } #d { position: absolute; top: -195px; left: 160px; width: 170px; } #e { position: absolute; top: -325px; left: 15px; width: 170px; } xhtml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>title</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="menu.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <p><a class="con" href="#"><span>text</span></a></p> <p><a class="menu" id="one" href="#">link<span id="a">rollover text</span></a><br /></p> <p><a class="menu" id="two" href="#">link<span id="b">rollover text</span></a><br /></p> <p><a class="menu" id="three" href="#">link<span id="c">rollover text</span></a><br /></p> <p><a class="menu" id="four" href="#">link <span id="d">rollover text</span></a><br /></p> <p><a class="menu" id="five" href="#">link<span id="e">rollover text</span></a><br /></p> </body> </html> i have a rollover menu that i made with image in a row absolutly positioned. for each button the html code is <div class="art"> <a href="#"> <span class="marginoffset"> Link text here (end tags) and the css is .art {z-index:2;position: absolute; left: 55px; top:0px; display:block; width:600px; height:70px; background: no-repeat 0px 0px; text-indent: -55px; line-height: 14.5em; text-decoration:none; color:#000; font-size:11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;} .art a {position: absolute;display:block; background:url(menuimg/btn.art_repro.jpg) no-repeat 0px 0px;line-height: 16.5em; text-align:left; text-decoration:none; text-wrapping: no-wrap; color:#999; font-size:0.7em;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;} .art a:hover {position: absolute; background: url(menuimg/btn.art_repro_f2.jpg) no-repeat 0px 0px; line-height: 14.5em; text-align:left; text-decoration:none; color:#000; font-size:11px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;} .art a:active {position: absolute; background: url(menuimg/btn.art_repro_f3.jpg) no-repeat 0px 0px; line-height: 14.5em; text-align:left; text-decoration:none; color:#000; font-size:11px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;} . marginoffset ( position: relative; left: 0px; top:0px; I would like to create a text rollover that not only changes color but also changes the word being displayed. For example: the link on the screen would first appear to be red and would read "A". When rolled over, the link would turn black and the would read "ABOUT". I have read about transparencies and visibility, but am not sure how to impliment it. I want to keep the coding as simple as possible. Nothing is worse than too much code! Thanks. Example: three rows of four pictures each. Code: <center> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <p> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <p> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> <img src="foo.jpg"> </center> But what if I want to put text below each image? Code: <center> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <p> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <p> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </center> We lose our rows and tidy appearance. So, put them all in divs, right? Code: <center> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <p> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <p> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div> </center> Great, text below image but the rows are completely gone. If I try to use float then the positioning gets scrambled from the other text and headings on the page. Is there a way to handle this? I want multiple rows of four pictures each, with text below each image. Thanks. |
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