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Posted by Jobe on October 8, 2006, 11:27 am
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Brendan wrote:
>Use CSS with div elements and separate background images for
each
>section to be hovered
To my modest knowledge the CSS hover command is not supported in IE. We
are all looking forward to IE7 to get this feature available.
PS: IE7 RC1 proves it works.
Best regards
Jobe
www.web-garden.be
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Annette Acquaire:
>
> > I have and image map with a dozen hotspot links on it that I'm
> > trying to get to open a new image over existing one on mouseover of
> > each COORD.
>
> As Brendan Gillatt wrote, image maps are usually a bad technique -
> especially for simple navigation, since they turn it into complicated and
> unreliable navigation.
>
> Yet, the technical problem is intriguing.
>
> > The only thing I was able to do was swap image on
> > mouseover entire image,
>
> That's the way - and you would thus need versions of the entire image for
> each mouseover effect. It's possible but awkward and inefficient.
>
> > I want it on each hotspot only,
>
> The problem is that even on browsers that support the onmouseover="..."
> attribute for in HTML _or_ :mouseover in CSS <area> elements, there's not
> much you can do in simple manner. In CSS, you cannot change the properties
> of an enclosing element in a rule for an area:mouseover selector.
>
> > I have done it in JavaScript, but the website I'm using doesn't use
> > JavaScript.
>
> I cannot quite see how you could do it even for the entire image without
> using JavaScript. You can use overlaid <img> elements and z-index to select
> which image is visible (i.e., on the top), but how could you make this
> depend on the _area_?
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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