HTML - Mouseover Image On An Image Hotspot - How Do I Do It?

Hi guys,

This is my first post. Im a beginner with website design.

I want to have mouseover images that are links to pages on my site. The thing is I want them to controll my In line frames. Normally you do it like

<A HREF="inf4.html" TARGET="right" >Click Here</a>

But how do I do it with a mouseover image?

I've found some help here already, so thanks in advance to the good folks that help us novices.

I have just a couple that need addressing, but they're pretty important to me, so hopefully someone can spell them out.

I'll explain them below but here's a quick rundown first:
1.) Wrapping text around a captioned image
3.) A pop-up text bar when a link is moused over.

1.) When I'm posting an image, a caption is almost always necessary. Here's the code I've been using for the image and caption:
"<table class="image">
<caption align="bottom">CAPTION</caption>
<tr><td><IMAGE LINK></td></tr>
</table>"
But when I post like that, there's a break between paragraphs to show the image, which disrupts the reading flow. I need a code that will let me post an image, add a bottom-aligned caption, and still have the story text appear alongside the image.
NOTE: I've been shown the "align=left/right" code, but where do I insert that in the code listed above?? I've tried right before and right after the image source code, but to no avail. Help, please!!

2.) I'm willing to spend hours to learn this one. Somebody, somebody has to know how to do this one. It's done on this site!
OK, here it is.
You mouse over a post listing, and a text bar appears next to the cursor. In that bar is the first few lines of the person's post.
HOW IS THIS DONE???
For someone looking to find new ways to boost hits on a news site, this is a priceless gem. If anyone knows how to do this or something similar in HTML, PLEASE let me know.


Thanks in advance to each and every person who reads this, and a special thanks to those who take the time to help. It means much.

aefattwotgm@aol.com

Okay. I'm trying to make it so when you mouseover a players "avatar" the border color changes from grey to red.

The following code works PERFECT in IE, but FF, the border doesn't show up at all.

CSS Coding:

Code:

   img.avatar {
    border-color : #CCCCCC;
    border : 1px
   }
   img.avatar:hover {
    border-color : #ff0000;
    border : 1px
    }   
   img.avatar:visited {
    border-color : #CCCCCC;
    border : 1px
   }
   img.avatar:hover {
    border-color : #ff0000;
    border : 1px
    }

HTML Coding:

Code:

<TD align=middle width=104>
<DIV align=center><A href="Link"><IMG class=avatar height=75 alt="" src="Image URL" width=75></A></DIV></TD>

Wondering if it's possible to make a circular image change to a different image on mouseover for each of the links in the sample photo. I'm thinking this would be easy to do if the image were square and not circular.



Sorry if this is in the wrong section. Is this possible and could you point me in the right direction?

I am creating a website that has a search button with an image. I would like to know if there is some simple code that I can include that would display the same basic image with a different color when the user mouses over the button.

Here is the code:

<FORM name="searchform"
onSubmit="return validateSearch();"
METHOD="POST"
ACTION="search_results_lt.asp">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="Search" VALUE="" SIZE="20" >&nbsp;

<INPUT TYPE=IMAGE SRC="images/search_button.gif" Name="SearchButton" Value="Submit">

</FORM>

****
Thanks for your help,


Robin

Hi all --

I'm having an interesting problem. I'm designing a web page that has a navigation banner (home - programs - schedule of events - contact us - downloads) that is made up of a .png for each page (i.e. home.png, programs.png, etc). My page is 1000px wide and all of the navigation banner's images add up to 1000px wide.

I'm using JavaScript to create an onMouseOver and onMouseOut effect on each of the images. The problem that I'm having occurs when I tried to add a link (either by <A HREF= or using an image map). Whenever I add a link to the image, a small (3px) area of white space shows up to the right of the image. This shifts all of my other images 3px to the right (and 3 more for each link I add to subsequent images) thus making the total width of the navigation banner over 1000px and the last image gets shoved to a new line.

I can find no way to get rid of this white space other than to remove the link from the image. There is no property on the page that adds any sort of padding, margins, or borders to images or links, so I can see no property that has to be changed.

Help! How do I get rid of this white space but still keep the link on the image??

[I posted this question on the Adobe forum to no avail, below is a screencap I took of the issue I'm having]

Thanks in advance!
//kl

PS - I am using both IE8 and Chrome to view this webpage. I've set all the margins/padding/borders to 0px. Here is my CSS and the part of the code that pertains to the navigation banner.

CSS:
Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #666666;
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
background-image: url(images/blue.bg.png);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color: #009;
}
.oneColFixCtr #container {
width: 1000px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
background: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
border: 0px solid #000000;
text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
}
.oneColFixCtr #mainContent {
padding: 0 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
}
body, td, th {
color: #333;
}
#main_banner2 {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: auto;
width: 1000px;
}
-->
</style>
 
</head>

Nav Banner:
NOTE:: below HAS to be all one paragraph because if i insert a carriage return in between images, it also adds the white space...
Code:

<body class="oneColFixCtr">
 
<!-- MAIN NAVIGATION BANNER -->  
<!--HOME--><img src="images/nav/home.png" alt="home" name="home" width="82" height="30" border="0" onMouseOver="document.images.home.src='images/nav/home_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.home.src='images/nav/home.png'"/><!--PROGRAMS--><img src="images/nav/programs.png" width="111" height="30" border="0" name="programs" onMouseOver="document.images.programs.src='images/nav/programs_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.programs.src='images/nav/programs.png'"/><!--SCHEDULE OF EVENTS--><img src="images/nav/scheduleofevents.png" width="189" height="30" border="0" name="scheduleofevents" onMouseOver="document.images.scheduleofevents.src='images/nav/scheduleofevents_ over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.scheduleofevents.src='images/nav/scheduleofevents.png'"/><!-- CONTACT US--><img src="images/nav/contactus.png" width="119" height="30" border="0" name="contactus" onMouseOver="document.images.contactus.src='images/nav/contactus_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.contactus.src='images/nav/contactus.png'"/><!--DOWNLOADS--><i mg src="images/nav/downloads.png" width="267" height="30" border="0" name="downloads" onMouseOver="document.images.downloads.src='images/nav/downloads_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.downloads.src='images/nav/downloads.png'"/><!--FACEBOOK--><im g src="images/nav/facebook.png" width="90" height="30" border="0" name="facebook" onMouseOver="document.images.facebook.src='images/nav/facebook_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.facebook.src='images/nav/facebook.png'"/><!--TWITTER--><img src="images/nav/twitter.png" width="67" height="30" border="0" name="twitter" onMouseOver="document.images.twitter.src='images/nav/twitter_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.twitter.src='images/nav/twitter.png'"/><!--BLOGGER--><img src="images/nav/blogger.png" width="75" height="30" border="0" name="blogger" onMouseOver="document.images.blogger.src='images/nav/blogger_over.png'" onMouseOut ="document.images.blogger.src='images/nav/blogger.png'"/><img src="images/home_banner.png" alt="home_border" width="1000" height="7" /><br />

I want to make a few hotspots on my home page for a little unique navigation of the site. You can see the page at http://www.collegeisboring.com/hjb/design/index.htm. I want hotspots on the street signs. The code I am trying to use is:
<div id="categorymenu">&nbsp;
<img src="images/streetsign2.gif" />
<area shape="poly" coords="336,226,386,106,244,98" href="index.htm" alt="Home" />
</div>

I am using Dreamweaver, but it just doesn't recognize that hotspot at all and the hotspot tool isn't working. Any tips?

Hi! I'm creating a website for my portfolio for all the videos that I have created during college. I have some hotspots on an image that I would like to use for the site, but I don't know how to create them as pop-ups (whenever I click on the hotspots the opened window just gets redirected to another page). I would like for these hotspots to open up a seperate window with my videos in them, and I'd also like the popup window to be a certain size. Can anyone let me know how to do this? Thanks.

So in January 2006 I posted a question about "making two buttons in one"



3 years and 5 months later i am happy to announce that I have found a solution.

Ok, so no I have not spent the last three years looking, but the need for one came around again yesterday so I revisited the project. All I needed was "simple" image toggle. Image 'A' click it once it changes to image 'B' click it again it changes back to image 'A'

All the "image toggle" codes I could find were extremely complex. I thought I had finally found one, it wasn't perfect, but it was the smallest and most basic thing I could find.

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.on {background-image:url(playlist_btn.png); background-repeat:no-repeat;}
.off {background-image:url(playlist_btn_x.png); background-repeat:no-repeat;}
</style>

<script language="javascript">
function togglestyle(el){if(el.className == "on") {el.className="off";} else {el.className="on";}}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<div id="onoff" class="playlist_btn"><img src="blank.gif" width="50 height="50" onclick="togglestyle(onoff)"></div>
</body>
</html>

I tested it, it worked, so I considered problem solved. I placed it in my page and nothing. Turns out it wont work with a doc type - so it's useless.

Other problems, I'm not big on using "blank gif's" unless I have to, if you want multiple image toggles you need a new JS function for each one, and two lines of css as well. And, though I rarely use image rollovers anymore, it would certainly not be possible in this method.

So it was back to the drawing board. Well, I had actually already found the solution a few minuets prior to finding out that the above code is so good. I had coded a button that on rollover shows a tooltip, when you click the button, the text in the tool tip, changes, chick again and it reverts. All done with a simple showHide javascript function, that i am finfing out has many uses.

here is the awesome code:
Code:

function showHide(elementid){
if (document.getElementById(elementid).style.display == 'none'){
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = '';
} else {
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = 'none';
}
}

function hideShow(elementid){
if (document.getElementById(elementid).style.display == ''){
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = 'none';
} else {
document.getElementById(elementid).style.display = '';
}
}

I wont take credit for the showHide code, but I will take credit for the hideShow portion, obviously a monkey could have coded the revers, but iot does make it that much more universal. As the original code was designed to show something that was hidden, add the revers to hide something that is showing and it's perfect.

Now I will take a moment to say, though I have yet to find a problem with the code, it seems to work in most browsers, firefox, ie, safari, and validates for WC3 - In sure it has it's flaws. Until now, to show and hide divs I had used the MM_showHideLayers JavaScript function, which by default used the visibility style. It is of course a good script, and has many uses, it's not very big, but it is somewhat complex. The other thing to think about is that invisible objects still take up space. That's what is cool about the display:none: style, is that is not only invisible but it doesn't take up space.

So here is how I used the above to JavaScript to make a simple onclick image toggle:

HTML Code:

<img id="on" src="on.png" width="50" height="50" onClick="javascript:hideShow('on'); javascript:showHide('off')" alt="on">
<img id="off" src="off.png" width="50" height="50" onClick="javascript:hideShow('off'); javascript:showHide('plus')" style="display:none;" alt="off">

Cool huh? Now this example does not have a rollover either, but since it uses to individual images and is not replacing one image wioth another you could easily apply a rollover to both images. But, hold on, look at the above code, isn't that essentially a rollover? Change the first onClick to onMouseOver and the second to onMouseOut and look at that a 'brand new' method for mouseovers.

So lets take a look at this for a second, and compare MM_swapImage to this new hideShow method. As far as CSS rollovers I definitely prefer them to the MM_swapImage method, as they use a minimal amount of code. However they actually take a lot of math, construction the buttons is somewhat tedious, because css buttons use 1 image and change it's position, to work well you have to use a "blank.gif" and the the css can really add up if you have a lot of buttons:

Also, you can't go directly to a button in the document, you have to fish through the css to make any adjustments. But they are fast, they don't need to be preloaded and... they are pretty cool. But anyway, swapImage and hideShow...



The left is the MM_swapImage method. Now when you use the swapImage js you also have to use MM_swapImgRestore, MM_findObj, MM_preloadImages. You don't have to use the preload script but it does make thing work faster... supposedly, but that requires a onload script in the body tag, and if you have a lot of rollovers your body tag can get really long really quick. So what are the advantages, well we know for sure it works, and you only need on image in the document, however actualy having the image you are "swapping" too actually in the document can add functionality.

So as you can see, on the right, the showHide method is, in total code, much smaller. True you do need to use two images, so the total code in the body is longer but, it's more than evened out bu the minimal JavaScript, and I think it's worth it. You don't need to use a preloader, you have full control over both images, the up and over state, and unlike the swapImage method, though it's rare you would need to, your up and over images can actually be different sizes, which is kind of cool.

So here's the basic code for a rollover:
HTML Code:

<img id="up" src="up.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOver="javascript:hideShow('up'); javascript:showHide('over')" alt="up">
<a href="http://google.com"><img id="over" src="over.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOut="javascript:hideShow('over'); javascript:showHide('up')" style="display:none;" alt="over" border="0"></a>

To add a link the button you just apply it to the "over state" image. And unlike swapImage, though it is overkill, you can also add a "downstate" image quite easily.

So, back to the on/off button here is how you would code it using showHide with rollovers.
HTML Code:

<img id="on" src="on.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOver="javascript:hideShow('on'); javascript:showHide('onover')" alt="on">
<img id="onover" src="on_over.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOut="javascript:hideShow('onover'); javascript:showHide('on')" onClick="javascript:hideShow('onover'); javascript:showHide('offover')"  style="display:none;" alt="onover">
<img id="off" src="off.png" width="50" height="50" onMouseOver="javascript:hideShow('off'); javascript:showHide('offover')" style="display:none;" alt="off">
<img id="offover" src="off_over.png" width="50" height="50" style="display:none;" onMouseout="javascript:hideShow('offover'); javascript:showHide('off')" onClick="javascript:hideShow('onover'); javascript:showHide('off')"alt="offover">

So here is what is going on:
you have the upstate on.png image, when you mouse over it on.png is hidden and on_over.png is displayed. When you click on_over.png it is hidden and off_over.png is display, mouse off it and off.png is displayed. Make scene?

Now be aware, when you click, you are also in a scene "mousing off" so some flickering can occur. Firefox handles everything pretty well, IE and Safari not so much. When you click the on_over.png the click tells it to hide on_over.png and show the off_over.png, at the same time the mouseoff tells it to hide on_over.png and show the on.png. So fortunately the toggle with rollovers isn't perfect, but perhaps some more tweaking of the code or maybe, in this case swapImage would work better to do the rollovers...

But all in all I'd say its a solid concept. If you feel compiled to do so, reply with any comments, concerns or flaws you see.

Hey guys. I need a little help with my HTML image rotator.

Everything works fine, except the images don't show up on the right slide. All 4 images show up on the first slide. I can't figure out what's wrong. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>...</title>
	<style>
		#sliderwrap {
			height: 403px;
		}
		#sliderleft {
			width: 10px;
			height: 100%;
			float: left;
			background: #efefef;
			border: 1px solid #ccc;
		}
		#sliderleft div {
			height: 100px;
			border-bottom: 1px solid black;
		}
		#slidercontent {
			position: relative;
			width: 650px;
			height: 100%;
			float: left;
			border: 1px solid black;
			overflow: hidden;
		}
		#sliderimages {
			position: absolute;
			-webkit-transition: all .5s ease-in-out;
			-moz-transition:    all .5s ease-in-out;
			-ms-transition:     all .5s ease-in-out;
			-o-transition:      all .5s ease-in-out;
			transition:         all .5s ease-in-out;
		}
		#sliderimages img {
			display: block;
		}
		.s0 #slide0,
		.s1 #slide1,
		.s2 #slide2,
		.s3 #slide3 {
			background: #ccc;
		}
		.s0 #sliderimages {top:     0  }
		.s1 #sliderimages {top:  -500px}
		.s2 #sliderimages {top: -1000px}
		.s3 #sliderimages {top: -1500px}
	</style>
	<script>
		var slide = 0;
		var interval_id = 0;

		function stop_timer() {
			clearInterval(interval_id);
			if (this.getAttribute("data-slide")) {
				slide = parseInt(this.getAttribute("data-slide"));
				document.getElementById("sliderwrap").className = "s" + slide;
			}
		}

		function start_timer() {
                        clearInterval(interval_id);
			interval_id = setInterval(
				function() {
					slide = (slide + 1) % 4;
					document.getElementById("sliderwrap").className = "s" + slide;
				},
				3000
			);
		}

		window.onload = function() {
			start_timer();
			var el = document.getElementById("slidercontent");
			var divs = document.getElementById("sliderleft").getElementsByTagName("div");
			for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) {
				divs[i].onmouseover = stop_timer;
				divs[i].onmouseout = start_timer;
			}
			el.onmouseover = stop_timer;
			el.onmouseout = start_timer;
		}
	</script>
</head>

<body>
	<div id="sliderwrap" class="s0">
		<div id="sliderleft">
			<div id="slide0" data-slide="0"></div>
			<div id="slide1" data-slide="1"></div>
			<div id="slide2" data-slide="2"></div>
			<div id="slide3" data-slide="3"></div>
		</div>
		<div id="slidercontent">
			<div id="sliderimages">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/8iWz6.jpg">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/1d2U6.jpg">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/8iWz6.jpg">
				<img src="http://i.imgur.com/1d2U6.jpg">
			</div>
		</div>
		<div style="clear: both;"></div>
	</div>
</body>
</html>

Hello! I was given some code by a very helpful person for my site (sailormoonthemovie.com/test2.html). I am a total beginner with HTML and usually just copy and paste into dreamweaver. Only now after bringing this new code into dreamweaver, it wont let me draw hotspots onto my main layout image (with the youtube, twitter and facebook squares) which I would like to turn into links. I'm pretty sure there is a really easy way of doing this but without it functioning in dreamweaver the way it did before, I'm totally lost. Thank you so much for any help or suggestions!

the title makes it sounds really confusing.
Ok im making my first website, and i need help with a code, (as you can see on www.dalekblaster.co.uk) i have got a section at the top where the images change from one to another.

The code is -

HTML Code:

// Set slideShowSpeed (milliseconds)
var slideShowSpeed = 5000;
// Duration of crossfade (seconds)
var crossFadeDuration = 5;
// Specify the image files
var Pic = new Array();
// to add more images, just continue
// the pattern, adding to the array below

Pic[0] = 'http://www.dalekblaster.co.uk/images/banner/dalekblasternexttime.jpg'
Pic[1] = 'http://www.dalekblaster.co.uk/images/banner/dalekblaster2.jpg'
Pic[2] = 'http://www.dalekblaster.co.uk/images/banner/dalekblastersjanexttime.jpg'
Pic[3] = 'http://www.dalekblaster.co.uk/images/banner/dalekblaster.jpg' 


// do not edit anything below this line
var t;
var j = 0;
var p = Pic.length;
var preLoad = new Array();
for (i = 0; i < p; i++) {
preLoad[i] = new Image();
preLoad[i].src = Pic[i];
}
function runSlideShow() {
if (document.all) {
document.images.SlideShow.style.filter="blendTrans(duration=2)";
document.images.SlideShow.style.filter="blendTrans(duration=crossFadeDuration)";
document.images.SlideShow.filters.blendTrans.Apply();
}
document.images.SlideShow.src = preLoad[j].src;
if (document.all) {
document.images.SlideShow.filters.blendTrans.Play();
}
j = j + 1;
if (j > (p - 1)) j = 0;
t = setTimeout('runSlideShow()', slideShowSpeed);

Now i need help because, i want to link each picture on the slideshow to a differnet page or external site, but im not sure how. (but so they can go to different pages not the same one)

can anyone help me?

I'm not sure if this is an IE issue, css, html... I have all icons and images showing a broken image" red X OVER the actual image? I've never seen this on any other sites or even on any other sites i've done. They are all .png images but I use .png files successfully all the time? Anyone encounter this?

Here's the HTML surrounding the image file:
HTML Code:

		<div class="header logo2"> <!-- Logo begins here -->
		<a href="index.php" title=""><img src="images/logo.png" alt="" /></a>
		</div> <!-- END Logo -->

Here's the CSS surrounding the image with no other images or backgrounds being called???
HTML Code:

.header {
	height: 41px;
}
.logo2 { text-align: right; }

See Image Attached...

Hi

I am wondering if there is a way to create a composite image of different images in a website folder?

So if I have a folder with image01.png, image02.png, image03.png, is there a way (on a website) to take those three images and create on composite image out of them, and then maybe place this new image in another folder?

I don't want to use Flash.

Thanks for your time and help.

Shaun

Hi

I am wondering if there is a way to create a composite image of different images in a website folder?

So if I have a folder with image01.png, image02.png, image03.png, is there a way (on a website) to take those three images and create on composite image out of them, and then maybe place this new image in another folder?

I don't want to use Flash.

Thanks for your time and help.

Shaun