Display Image On Text Link Hover CSS Only

Question

I have a text link. When the user hovers over the text link, I want an image to be displayed elsewhere on the page. I want to do this using css. I thought it could be done s

Answer 1

I did something like that:

HTML:

<p class='parent'>text text text</p>
<img class='child' src='idk.png'>

CSS:

.child {
    visibility: hidden;
}

.parent:hover .child {
    visibility: visible;
}

Answer 2

add

.hover_img a:hover span {
    display: block;
    width: 350px;
}

to show hover image full size in table change 350 to your size.

Answer 3

It can be done using CSS alone. It works perfect on my machine in Firefox, Chrome and Opera browser under Ubuntu 12.04.

CSS :

.hover_img a { position:relative; }
.hover_img a span { position:absolute; display:none; z-index:99; }
.hover_img a:hover span { display:block; }

HTML :

<div class="hover_img">
     <a href="#">Show Image<span><img src="images/01.png" alt="image" height="100" /></span></a>
</div>

Answer 4

From w3 schools:

<style>
/* Tooltip container */
.tooltip {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black; /* If you want dots under the hoverable text */
}

/* Tooltip text */
.tooltip .tooltiptext {
  visibility: hidden;
  width: 120px;
  background-color: black;
  color: #fff;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 5px 0;
  border-radius: 6px;

  /* Position the tooltip text - see examples below! */
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 1;
}

/* Show the tooltip text when you mouse over the tooltip container */
.tooltip:hover .tooltiptext {
  visibility: visible;
}
</style>

<div class="tooltip">Hover over me
  <img src="/pathtoimage" class="tooltiptext">
</div>

Sounds like about what you want

Answer 5

It is not possible to do this with just CSS alone, you will need to use Javascript.

<img src="default_image.jpg" id="image" width="100" height="100" alt="" />


<a href="page.html" onmouseover="document.images['image'].src='mouseover.jpg';" onmouseout="document.images['image'].src='default_image.jpg';"/>Text</a>

Answer 6

CSS isn't going to be able to call other elements like that, you'll need to use JavaScript to reach beyond a child or sibling selector.

You could try something like this:

<a>Some Link
<div><img src="/you/image" /></div>
</a>

then...

a>div { display: none; }
a:hover>div { display: block; }