Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | CSS Photograph Gallery with hover and active states

Information

Another simple gallery that does not use thumbnail images. Because all the images are preloaded I have used the full size images as the thumbnails (displaying them at one fifth linear scale).

The first step is the hover which produced a half linear size image, then if you click the hover area it will produce a full size image that will stay on screen until you move your mouse off the gallery and click again.
The next half size image will display on top of the previous full size image, and so on...

Works in IE6 and Firefox, but Opera just gets the hover as a full size image because it does not understand active or focus in the same way as other browsers. Can Mac owners please let me know if this works in their browser, thanks.

I have just used seven repeated images instead of having twenty four different ones to save my bandwidth.

9th July 2005

Blow the bandwidth, let's have a decent subject.

Cascading Style Sheet

ul#gallery {
  padding:0; 
  margin:0; 
  width:448px; 
  height:336px; 
  position:relative; 
  background:#888 url(graff/g26.jpg);
  }
#gallery li {
  list-style-type:none; 
  width:64px; 
  height:48px; 
  float:left; 
  z-index:100;
  }
#gallery li.lft {
  float:left; 
  clear:left;
  }
#gallery li.rgt {
  float:right; 
  clear:right;
  }
#gallery a {
  position:relative; 
  width:64px; 
  height:48px; 
  display:block; 
  float:left; 
  z-index:100; 
  cursor:default;
  }
#gallery a img {
  position:relative; 
  width:62px; 
  height:46px; 
  border:1px solid #888; 
  z-index:100;
  }
#gallery a:hover {
  width:160px; 
  height:120px; 
  padding:108px 144px; 
  position:absolute; 
  left:0; 
  top:0; 
  z-index:20;
  }
#gallery a:hover img {
  background:#eee; 
  position:relative; 
  width:160px; 
  height:120px; 
  border:0; 
  z-index:20;
  }
#gallery a:active, #gallery a:focus {
  background:transparent; 
  width:320px; 
  height:240px; 
  padding:48px 64px; 
  position:absolute; 
  left:0; 
  top:0; 
  z-index:10;
  }
#gallery a:active img, #gallery a:focus img {
  background:#eee; 
  position:relative; 
  width:320px; 
  height:239px; 
  border:0; 
  z-index:10;
  }
/* hack for Internet Explorer */
#gallery li.pad {
  height:0; 
  display:block; 
  margin-top:-2px; 
  width:448px; 
  font-size:0;
  }

/* hack for Opera 7+ */
@media all and (min-width:0px){
#gallery a:hover {
  background:#888; 
  width:320px; 
  height:240px; 
  padding:48px 64px; 
  position:absolute; 
  left:0; 
  top:0; 
  z-index:10;
  }
#gallery a:hover img {
  background:#aaa; 
  position:relative; 
  width:320px; 
  height:240px; 
  border:0; 
  z-index:10;
  }
}

XHTML

<ul id="gallery">
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g1.jpg" alt="#1" title="#1" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g2.jpg" alt="#2" title="#2" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g3.jpg" alt="#3" title="#3" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g4.jpg" alt="#4" title="#4" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g5.jpg" alt="#5" title="#5" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g6.jpg" alt="#6" title="#6" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g7.jpg" alt="#7" title="#7" /></a></li>

<li class="lft"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g8.jpg" alt="#8" title="#8" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g9.jpg" alt="#9" title="#9" /></a></li>
<li class="lft"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g10.jpg" alt="#10" title="#10" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g11.jpg" alt="#11" title="#11" /></a></li>
<li class="lft"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g12.jpg" alt="#12" title="#12" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g13.jpg" alt="#13" title="#13" /></a></li>
<li class="lft"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g14.jpg" alt="#14" title="#14" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g15.jpg" alt="#15" title="#15" /></a></li>
<li class="lft"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g16.jpg" alt="#16" title="#16" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g17.jpg" alt="#17" title="#17" /></a></li>

<li class="pad"></li>

<li class="lft"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g18.jpg" alt="#18" title="#18" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g19.jpg" alt="#19" title="#19" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g20.jpg" alt="#20" title="#20" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g21.jpg" alt="#21" title="#21" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g22.jpg" alt="#22" title="#22" /></a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g23.jpg" alt="#23" title="#23" /></a></li>
<li class="rgt"><a href="#nogo">
<img src="graff/g24.jpg" alt="#24" title="#24" /></a></li>
</ul>

Copyright

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