CSS - Css Image/text Rollovers- How?

Hi,

I am trying to create a menu, and I would like to try to do it without using Javascript.

I a number of menu items, that each has three states - first state is just white text, second state needs to fade from white to blue text when mouse is rolled over. Third state needs to fade from blue to white text when mouse is taken off each menu item. I have the three images for that (white, white-blue, blue-white).

I have read up on a few image rollover guides using CSS, but they all involve putting outlines around an existing image etc. As the images need to be links, they can't be background images (can they?), they have to be just images.

So, can anyone point me in the right direction on how to swap an image with another when one a) an image is rolled over, and also b) when the mouse is removed from over the image.

Thanks

So I have 5 image rollovers onmouseover() all in a row with the following css and javascript. Currently, the left-most image rollsover just fine, but when I try to rollover the others, the image that comes to replace the rolledover one gets put in the left-most spot instead of right on top of the image that was rolledover. I can't use absolute positioning because the whole webpage is centered according to window size. Help is greatly appreciated. Here's the link: create.byu.edu/newsite

CSS:
Code:

div.info 
{ float:left; 
display:inline; 
margin-left:0px; 
margin-top:35px; 
} 
div.team 
{ float:left; 
display:inline; 
margin-left:0px; 
margin-top:35px; 
} 
div.work 
{ float:left; 
display:inline; 
margin-left:0px; 
margin-top:35px; 
} 
div.sites 
{ float:left; 
display:inline; 
margin-left:0px; 
margin-top:35px; 
} 
div.news 
{ float:left; 
display:inline; 
margin-left:0px; 
margin-top:35px; 
}

javascript:
Code:

var image1 = new Image(); 
image1.src = "images/info.jpg"; 
var image2 = new Image(); 
image2.src = "images/infoblue.jpg"; 
var image3 = new Image(); 
image3.src = "images/team.jpg"; 
var image4 = new Image(); 
image4.src = "images/teamblue.jpg"; 
var image5 = new Image(); 
image5.src = "images/work.jpg"; 
var image6 = new Image(); 
image6.src = "images/workblue.jpg"; 
var image7 = new Image(); 
image7.src = "images/sites.jpg"; 
var image8 = new Image(); 
image8.src = "images/sitesblue.jpg"; 
var image9 = new Image(); 
image9.src = "images/news.jpg"; 
var image0 = new Image(); 
image0.src = "images/newsblue.jpg";  

function roll(img_name, img_src)    {
    document[img_name].src = img_src;    
}

HTML:
Code:

	<div class="info">
 		<a href="info.php" onmouseover="roll('info', 'images/infoblue.jpg')" onmouseout="roll('info', 'images/info.jpg')">
 			<img src="images/info.jpg" border="0" alt="infogray" name="info">
 		</a>
 	</div><!--info-->
                <div class="team">
 		<a href="team.php" onmouseover="roll('info', 'images/teamblue.jpg')" onmouseout="roll('info', 'images/team.jpg')">
 			<img src="images/team.jpg" border="0" alt="teamgray" name="team">
 		</a>
 	</div><!--team-->
 	 	<div class="work">
 		<a href="work.php" onmouseover="roll('info', 'images/workblue.jpg')" onmouseout="roll('info', 'images/work.jpg')">
 			<img src="images/work.jpg" border="0" alt="workgray" name="work">
 		</a>
 	</div><!--work-->
 	 	<div class="sites">
 		<a href="sites.php" onmouseover="roll('info', 'images/sitesblue.jpg')" onmouseout="roll('info', 'images/sites.jpg')">
 			<img src="images/sites.jpg" border="0" alt="sitesgray" name="sites">
 		</a>
 	</div><!--sites-->
 	 	<div class="news">
 		<a href="news.php" onmouseover="roll('info', 'images/newsblue.jpg')" onmouseout="roll('info', 'images/news.jpg')">
 			<img src="images/news.jpg" border="0" alt="newsgray" name="news">
 		</a>
 	</div><!--news-->

Hi There,

I am working on a new layout for a control panel.

I have the basic layout coded up:

http://www.lampdesign.co.uk/desdev/ss/

I am now needing to put a row of icon images in for the various sections of the control panel - here is an example of what they look like:

http://lampdesign.co.uk/desdev/ss/images/buttonbar.png

Is it possible to do a rollover image list?, I have looked on listomatic and there are image lists with rollover bg images but no actual image rollovers.

I am not 100% sure what to do - I could do tables but I'd rather not!

Any ideas?

Thanks

Originally, I used <DIV> as containers for background images which swap when you hover over them. I enclosed the <DIV> tags with <A> tags to make them 'links'. Older versions of IE didn't want to work with this though and I found it this is invalid CSS, so I explored some more...

The best solution I have found so far is to use <A> itself as a container. This solved the IE5 problems, but now IE4 SP2 doesn't show them at all. I'm okay with leaving IE4 behind, but I discovered that using <A> tags as containers was an invalid technique.

If I can't use <A><DIV> and I can't use <A>, then what can I use to make valid, preloaded CSS image rollovers that work? I'm not considering Javascript an option. Is it possible?

Here's a random, simliar example of what I've done with the <A> tags.
http:// www. findmotive. com /2006/10/31/simple-css-image-rollover/

Of course I've seen lots of CSS navigation using image rollovers, and others using dropdowns, but I haven't been able to find any that use both at the same time.

I'm trying to put it on a WordPress site ...

Any links or help would be much appreciated!

Laura S.

I've seen the link that Kravitz has linked to http://www.dynamicsitesolutions.com...mage_switching/ and while helpful, I think I'm becoming more confused. Part of the problem is that in those examples (and even there I'm getting confused over which example is supposed to be the one to use) the images are assumed to be the same width, so the property is set for 120px. But my images are different widths. Now I can make the rollovers work by for example:

Code:

.item1 a {
background-image : url(menuoffa.jpg);
float:left;
height:28px;
width:103px;
}

.item1 a:hover {
background-image : url(menuona.jpg);
float:left;
height:28px;
width:103px;
}

and then using html in the following way:
Code:

<div class="item1"><a href="pagelink.htm"></a></div>

My problem is that I can't center the items relative to the page If I were going to use 'tables' to do this, then I'd put all the items in one centered cell, but the whole point is not to use tables so what am I doing wrong?!?! Probably more like, what am I doing right, but anyway... And I've tried reading up on going the horizontal unordered list way http://www.webreference.com/program...ists/index.html but I'm using images instead of text so same problems still

OMG I'm going insane

I was working on a site today and I noticed a weird bug in IE 7. Couldn't find anything similar on the net, so I'll post here.
PseudoCSS:

Code:

#topdiv{
width:960px;
}

#bottomdiv{
float: left;
margin-left:15px;
width: 300px;
}

.previous a{
background: url('images/previous.png') no-repeat;
}

.previous a:hover {
background-position:0 -62px;
}

PseudoHTML:
Code:

<div id="topdiv"><a href="" class="previous">Link</a></div>
<div id="bottomdiv">Content</div>

When rolling over the image in topdiv, bottomdiv loses it's 15px margin-left and butts up against the left border of the parent div (Only in IE7). I removed the margin-left of bottomdiv and replaced it with relative positioning, left:15px. This fixed the issue and works cross browser. I guess my question is: is relative positioning "safer" than margins on floated elements?

Good Morning All,

Been having a slight problem with the visual in the screenshot below.

The blue line is our H2, and the purple one is our H3, however, as you can see, the underline spans the entire width of the column, not just underneith the text, which is our requirement.

***As i am not allowed to upload a url as a new user, the underline is as follows. With the text centre aligned.

text
-----------------------------------------------------------

rather than

text
------

and obviously by the css, the underline on the headers is a small image, repeated - x.


Please see relevant css information.

* (line 23)

{

margin-top: 0pt;

margin-right: 0pt;

margin-bottom: 0pt;

margin-left: 0pt;

padding-top: 0pt;

padding-right: 0pt;

padding-bottom: 0pt;

padding-left: 0pt;

}

h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 (line 101)

{

font-size: 1.2em;

font-weight: normal;

padding-bottom: 4px;

margin-top: 0.6em;

margin-right: 0pt;

margin-bottom: 0.8em;

margin-left: 0pt;

text-align: center;

}

.contentArea h2, #secondaryNavigation h2 (line 114)

{

background-color: transparent;

background-image: url("../images/h2_gradient_bg.gif");

background-repeat: repeat-x;

background-attachment: scroll;

background-position: left bottom;

color: #0066cc;

}


Many Thanks in advance.

Marc.

Hi.
See code below. Why does the outer SPAN in TABLE not grow with the image height. If the text is longer so it is forced below image then it looks as it should.
Please also read some comments in the code.

Code:

<html><body><center><br><br>
Why does image not force the outermost span to be at least as high as image?<br>
If the text are long enough and gets below the bottom border of image it look good though.<br><br>
NOTE: I need to put Image and text either within separate span or in same span as the examples below.<br>
In my real application I'm using an <a href=" ...> around the outer span in examples below.<br>

<br><br>
<table border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=200px><tr><td>
	<span style="display:block; background-color:#ffa827; padding-top:10px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;">
		<span style="display:block; float:left">
			<img src="landscape.jpg" height="40px" width="40px" alt="" border="0">
		</span>
		
		<span style="display: block; color: white;">
			Text here. 
		</span>
	</span>
</td></tr></table>

<br><br>
<table border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=200px><tr><td>
	<span style="display:block; background-color:#ffa827; padding-top:10px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; color: white;">
			<img src="landscape.jpg" height="40px" width="40px" alt="" border="0" style="float:left">
			Text here.
	</span>
</td></tr></table>

</center></body></html>

Hi. Really hoping someone can help me with this... I'll try and explain this as best I can(!)

Basically I've got a page containing a block of 9 images, with each linking to a video clip. At the moment I've got the CSS coded so that whenever the mouse is hovered over the 'infobar' (at the bottom of each image) it goes from having a transparent background with black text to having a grey background with white text.

What I'm trying to achieve is that same effect whenever the mouse is hovered over any part of the image and infobar. The live online link can be found at:
www.markmcm.co.uk/test/test.html

The CSS is as as follows:

Code:

/*
 *  Page Stylesheet 
 */
body {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  background-color: #eaeaea;
  border:0; margin:0; padding:0;
  height: 100%;
}
a:link {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
}
#container {
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
   	min-height: 100%;
	width: 936px;
}
* html #container {
	height: 100%;
}
#content {
	float:left;
	position: relative;
	height: 528px;
	width: 936px;
	z-index: 0;
}
.miniscreen1, .miniscreen2, .miniscreen3, .miniscreen4, .miniscreen5, .miniscreen6, .miniscreen7, .miniscreen8, .miniscreen9 {
	position: absolute;
	float: left;
	display: block;
	width: 312px;
	height: 176px;
}
.miniscreen1 {
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
}
.miniscreen2 {
	top:0;
	left: 312px;
}
.miniscreen3 {
	top: 0;
	left: 624px;
}
.miniscreen4 {
	left: 0;
	top:176px;
}
.miniscreen5 {
	left: 312px;
	top:176px;
}
.miniscreen6 {
	left: 624px;
	top:176px;
}
.miniscreen7 {
	left: 0;
	top:352px;
}
.miniscreen8 {
	left: 312px;
	top:352px;
}
.miniscreen9 {
	left: 624px;
	top:352px;
}
.info {
	height: 30px;
	top:3px;
	left: 40px;
	width: 265px;
	float: left;
	position: absolute;
}
.infobar  {
	left:0px;
	position: absolute;
	top: 140px;
	width: 312px;
	height: 36px;
	outline: none;
	color:#000;
	background: url("data/infobar.png") no-repeat 0 0;
	z-index: 650;
}
.infobar:hover  { 
	background-position: 0 -36px;
	outline: none;
	color:#fff;
}
#infobar span {
	display: none;
	outline: none;
}
.clip_title {
	outline: none;
	font-size: 85%;
	font-weight: 700;
	vertical-align: top;
	text-align: left;
}
.clip_sub {
	outline: none;
	height: 13px;
	font-size: 80%;
	line-height: 13px;
	font-weight: 700;
	vertical-align: top;
	text-align: left;
}

And the HTML is:

Code:

<!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">
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
		<title>Test Page</title>
		<meta name="description" content=" " />
		<meta name="keywords" content=" " />
		<meta name="generator" content=" " />
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page.css" media="screen" />
	</head>
<body>

<div id="container">

	<div id="content">
		<span class="miniscreen1">			
		<a href="#"> <img src="img/clip1.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 1<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
					
		<span class="miniscreen2">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip2.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 2<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
		
		<span class="miniscreen3">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip3.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 3<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
			
		<span class="miniscreen4">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip4.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 4<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen5">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip5.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 5<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen6">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip6.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 6<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen7">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip7.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 7<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen8">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip8.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 8<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
	
		<span class="miniscreen9">
		<a href="#"><img src="img/clip9.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0">
		<span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 9<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a>
		</span></span>
				
	</div>
</div>
	
</body>
</html>

There must be a better (and easier?) way to do this. Any help would be very-much appreciated - and save an old bloke from tearing too much of his hair out(!)

Hi
I am redesigning my blog and took it down completely. I want to place the day's text post on the day's photo post on top of the latter, while graying out the photo. Is that possible without using flash?

Figured this was simple, but I can't seem to figure it out.

Using CSS, I want to put an image on the left with text to the right aligned to the bottom. I could easily do this with a table, but I'd like to find a CSS way.

With CSS like:

.imginfo {float:none;clear:both;margin-top:1em;}
.imginfo img {float:left;margin-right:1em;}

and code like:

Code:

<div class="imginfo">
  <img src="..." />
  Line of Text<br />
  Line of Text<br />
  Line of Text<br />
</div>

I get the image on the left and the text on the right, but, the text starts at the top of the image. I want it to end up aligned to the bottom of the image.

Attempting to use vertical-align: bottom doesn't do anything with the text.

The effect I am looking for is like below. If you assume the XXX are the image...

Code:

XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX Line of Text
XXXXXXXXXXXX Line of Text
XXXXXXXXXXXX Line of Text

Ok, Here what I need to figure out. I have a set of images on my main page.
My Site and then I have a set of images to be over put on top of them with some kind of roll over/over lay. these images look like this Rollover images. on my main page if you hit refresh the photo gallery image is random from a directory. This removes the posablity of static images for that. my current css is at http://www.guthnur.net/style.css. Can anyone tell me how to put my transparent image over a image in the same div?

delete

I want to create a menu where when you rollover and option it changes color ... this I've done. The next thing I want is for the active page to stay the rollover color ... how do I do this?

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">

#navcontainer { width: 200px; }

#navcontainer ul
{
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#navcontainer a
{
display: block;
padding: 3px;
width: 160px;
background-color: #329CAA;
border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;
}

#navcontainer a:link, #navlist a:visited
{
color: #EEE;
text-decoration: none;
}

#navcontainer a:hover
{
background-color: #99D041;
color: #fff;
}
</style>
</head> 

<body>
<table width="100%"  border="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="200"> <div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Item one</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item four</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
</ul>
</div></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I got most of this code from: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical08.htm