Well laura wanted to do some roll over effects on one of her sites so I had to figure out how to do that. Well after lots of searching this was the solution I came up with.
First download jquery.js and upload it to the server
Second add these lines of code to your header.php or scripts section of your site:
<script type='text/javascript' src='location of jquery script'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("img.a").hover(
function() {
$(this).stop().animate({"opacity": "0"}, "slow");
},
function() {
$(this).stop().animate({"opacity": "1"}, "slow");
});
});
</script>
Then edit the CSS of your site and add these classes (styling may vary!):
div.fadehover {
position: relative;
height: 238px; /*this is to space your images*/
width: 360px;
}
img.a {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
z-index: 10;
border: 2px;
border-style:solid;
border-color: black;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}
img.b {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
border: 2px;
border-style:solid;
border-color: black;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}
Then you will just need to add these lines to your page:
<div class="fadehover"> <img src="startimage.jpg" class="a" alt="" /> <img src="endimage.jpg" class="b" alt="" /> </div>
After doing that you should have your achieved effect of the roll over and image swap
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