How to show live preview in a small popup of linked page on mouse over on link?

Question

How to show live preview in a small popup of linked page on mouse over on link ?

like this

http://cssglobe.com/lab/tooltip/03/

but live preview

Answer 1

You can use an iframe to display a preview of the page on mouseover:

.box{
    display: none;
    width: 100%;
}

a:hover + .box,.box:hover{
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 100;
}

This live preview for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>
  <div class="box">
    <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/" width = "500px" height = "500px">
    </iframe>
  </div> 
remains open on mouseover.

Here's an example with multiple live previews:

.box{
    display: none;
    width: 100%;
}

a:hover + .box,.box:hover{
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 100;
}

Live previews for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>
  <div class="box">
     <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/" width = "500px" height = "500px">
     </iframe>
  </div> 
and <a href="https://www.jquery.com/">JQuery</a>
  <div class="box">
     <iframe src="https://www.jquery.com/" width = "500px" height = "500px">
     </iframe>
  </div> 
will appear when these links are moused over.

Answer 2

You could do the following:

1. Create (or find) a service that renders URLs as preview images
2. Load that image on mouse over and show it
3. If you are obsessive about being live, then use a Timer plug-in for jQuery to reload the image after some time

Of course this isn't actually live.

What would be more sensible is that you could generate preview images for certain URLs e.g. every day or every week and use them. I image that you don't want to do this manually and you don't want to show the users of your service a preview that looks completely different than what the site currently looks like.

Answer 3

I have done a little plugin to show a iframe window to preview a link. Still in beta version. Maybe it fits your case: https://github.com/Fischer-L/previewbox.

Answer 4

Another way is to use a website thumbnail/link preview service LinkPeek (even happens to show a screenshot of StackOverflow as a demo right now), URL2PNG, Browshot, Websnapr, or an alternative.

Answer 5

Personally I would avoid iframes and go with an embed tag to create the view in the mouseover box.

<embed src="http://www.btf-internet.com" width="600" height="400" />

Answer 6

You can display a live preview of a link using javascript using the code below.

<embed src="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp" width="60" height="40" />
<p id="p1"><a href="http://cnet.com">Cnet</a></p>
<p id="p2"><a href="http://codegena.com">Codegena</a></p>
<p id="p3"><a href="http://apple.com">Apple</a></p>


<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link href="http://codegena.com/assets/css/image-preview-for-link.css" rel="stylesheet">     
  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
                $('#p1 a').miniPreview({ prefetch: 'pageload' });
                $('#p2 a').miniPreview({ prefetch: 'parenthover' });
                $('#p3 a').miniPreview({ prefetch: 'none' });
            });
  </script> <script src="http://codegena.com/assets/js/image-preview-for-link.js"></script>

Learn more about it at Codegena

id="p1" - Fetch image preview on page load.
id="p2" - Fetch preview on hover.
id="p3" - Fetch preview image each time you hover.