Cross browser CSS slide show
12th April 2006
- CSS play ~ SLIDE SHOW
- Hover the mouse over Set 1, Set 2 or Set 3 above to drop down the projector screen and show a 4x4 array of photographic slides in both portrait and landscape format.
- Click the mouse on any of these photographic slides to see the 640 x 480 pixel full size photograph projected onto the screen.
NOTE: Opera and Safari users will need to keep the mouse button pressed to see the image.
Netscape 8 users will need to click on the slide mount not the image to open the full size photograph. - To close the fullsize photograph click anywhere on the grey projection screen. Opera and Safari users just release the mouse button.
Firefox and Netscape just click anywhere. - Moving the mouse off the grey projector screen will close the slide selection.
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Information
I have had many visitors asking how they could produce a slide show or photogallery using a mixture of portrait and landscape images. Well this is one way that it could be done
It works in a similar manner to my previous examples except that I have removed the 2x image on hover (this was a bit of a gimmick anyway) and have gone straight for a click to produce the full size image.
Yet again all photographs are taken from the stock.xchng
For this to work, without scrolling, your visitor will need a screen resolution capable of displaying the whole projector screen. Whilst you can use the mousewheel to scroll, you cannot use the scroll bars as the image will vanish if you move outside of the projector screen area.
Hacks have been added to make it work in IE5.5 for people browsing using the standalone version. Strictly speaking IE5.5 should have it's own CSS loaded by yet another conditional comment.
Cascading Style Sheet
If you look at the header of this page you will see that the normal method of loading a file is used for the non-ie browser css files.
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="css/slide_show.css" />
The IE only style sheets are loaded using the conditional comment.
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="css/slide_show_ie.css" />
<![endif]-->
The xhtml
The xhtml code for the multi-page gallery can be seen here in text format.
You will see that conditional comments have been used to hold the IE specific version of the tab set which used nested tables. The other browsers will not see the tables and instead will use the normal unordered lists.
Please note that you will also need a standards compliant !doctype for this menu to work correctly.
Copyright
Because of all the time and effort spent in producing this demonstration
I would ask that you respect my copyright.
- If you are using this on a personal web site then please add a link back to CSSplay and retain any copyright comment in the stylesheet.
A donation to the 'Support CSSplay' fund would be appreciated. - If you are using this on a commercial web site, or as a paying job for a client, then please email me asking for permission - stu{at}cssplay.co.uk and in this case a donation to the 'Support CSSplay' fund is required.
- If you are having problems integrating any of my demonstrations into your website then I now offer a service to fault find and correct any errors that you may have introduced. Please email me for more information.
