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CSS Popup Image Viewer

Author: Dynamic Drive

Enable arbitrary links or image thumbnails to pop up an enlarged (different) image onMouseover by using this CSS code. With the help of CSS's ":hover" pseudo class, combined with relative and absolute positioning, the enlarged images are simply included on the page as normal HTML, "popping" up on demand. CSS is behaving more and more like scripting!

Demo:

One of my favorite foods is sushi
Doesn't this look good?, and it's good for you too! Coffee and sushi probably don't mix well, but I like some Zoka Coffee
Zoka Coffee to boot! Here are some thumbnails from my trip to La la land:

Simply beautiful.
So real, it's unreal. Or is it?

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.thumbnail{
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
}

.thumbnail:hover{
background-color: transparent;
z-index: 50;
}

.thumbnail span{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
position: absolute;
background-color: lightyellow;
padding: 5px;
left: -1000px;
border: 1px dashed gray;
visibility: hidden;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}

.thumbnail span img{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
border-width: 0;
padding: 2px;
}

.thumbnail:hover span{ /*CSS for enlarged image on hover*/
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 60px; /*position where enlarged image should offset horizontally */

}

</style>

The HTML:

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/tree_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="66px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/tree.jpg" /><br />Simply beautiful.</span></a>

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/ocean_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="66px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/ocean.jpg" /><br />So real, it's unreal. Or is it?</span></a>

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<br />

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb">Dynamic Drive<span><img src="media/dynamicdrive.gif" /><br />Dynamic Drive</span></a><br />
<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb">Zoka Coffee<span><img src="media/zoka.gif" /><br />Zoka Coffee</span></a>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 05/07/2006

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

Your Comments (439)

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Comment Pages 41 of 44 pages « First < 39 40 41 42 43 > Last »

Hi
Is there a way of rolling over an image to display a large block of text?

Posted by Ben on 08/27, 07:08 PM

Hi All, I'm experincing a problem with IE regarding this script. First is in IE it loads very slowly but not in firefox. Also in IE6 the enlarged image doesn't show at all. But IE7 it does. You can see it in the url I mentioned.

Posted by Andarege Livera on 08/29, 09:36 AM

For large image to show in IE6 you must keep href="#thumb" intact. I've had the same problem. This also renders differently in IE6 than in IE7 & FF2 or FF3. I'm still tweeking mine.
jlyweb.com/Porter2.html is IE7, FF2 & FF3 compatable, but fails in IE6
jlyweb.com/Porter3.html is tweeked for IE6, but looks funky on IE7, FF2 & FF3 (all the browers I've got available to me)

Posted by jonna on 08/29, 12:21 PM

This is nice, and preloading would make it even better.

Posted by Craig on 09/07, 08:08 AM

How can I do this on Text Links? Thanks

Posted by Guru Geek on 09/07, 11:29 AM

Great Script!! Works perfectly. Is there a way to center the picture to the browser though?

Posted by Christy on 09/08, 08:50 AM

stylesheet2 because I also used the lightbox script and viewer.css because that's how I called the stylsheet i've made at the root of the folder.

Posted by Start a Petition on 09/15, 05:10 PM

Hi, The image popup viewer is very nice and I am using it on my site but its giving me problem with safari it overlaps with flash video and plus all of the site seems to be draging if anyone is scrolling the popup image. any tips or clues on this please.

Posted by naeem on 09/18, 01:19 AM

really great..
i was looking for the same in easy way and i got thanks..

i was using java script for this purpose now i can do it easily

Posted by Bibek on 09/18, 11:50 PM

I am really dumb.

How do I read the answers to the questions asked above.

I am just starting with html and need all of the help I can get.

Posted by jim allison on 09/24, 12:23 PM

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