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Better method of making a rollover image header.


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Old Mar 14, 2012, 01:33 PM
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Dapizz
 
15 posts · Mar 2012
Great British Isles
Better method of making a rollover image header.

Hi,

Recently I've been re-theming a website of mine and have run into the issue of rollover buttons. They're at the top of the page in the header inside a table. The dashes are just there as a guide for me, ignore them. The method I have always used is to have 2 separate images and to use JavaScript to switch them as the user hovers over them. The main issue, asides from not being able to fade them in/out (as far as I know), is that they tend to take a noticeable few milliseconds to load. This gives that unprofessional and undesirable delay effect I want to get rid of.

I have been through a selection of Google results and all I seem to come across is using CSS. I have tried doing this, using just one image and making the style slide it along to create the rollover effect. I have tried this to no avail. I put the relevant CSS in style.css in the Editor and then added divs to the header table with class="header-tw" (Twitter button) and other things the websites I used told me to add.

I'm just wondering if there's any way of making either the browser pre-load the images as the page loads (to eliminate the delay, I can live with no fade), to get the CSS working (any ideas?) or even another method. If possible I want to stay away from Flash under all circumstances as I wan't my blog to be universal device wise.

Thanks in advance.
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Old Mar 14, 2012, 05:06 PM
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10,176 posts · Jul 2009
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For rollover hovers I either use the advanced image function you can get with the TineMCE Advanced plugin or my current favorite was is to use the Hover Image plugin.
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Old Mar 17, 2012, 02:22 PM
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15 posts · Mar 2012
Great British Isles
Thanks for the reply. I've tried out the plugins and the Hover Image plugin was not 3.3.1 compatible. The TinyMCE Advanced one seems like a cool plugin but it just a quick way of creating what I already have. I've decided to go for an entirely CSS approach with no images, but I value your input.

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