Showing Text When Hovering Over an Image Link

Question

I have already looked here (How to show text on image when hovering?) to find a solution to this problem but it doesnt 100% work... Because the paragraph is located below the image part of the image is not covered when you hover over it. I want the whole image covered by the text when you hover over the image. (Look at this: http://jsfiddle.net/rMhGE/ or below.)

The HTML

<body>
        <div class="cube1">

            <a href="http://google.com"><img src="http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/busja/busja1209/busja120900010/15099001-detailed-vector-image-of-symbol-of-london--best-known-british-double-decker-bus.jpg">
            <p class="contact">Random Text Here</p></a>
       </div>
</body>

The CSS

.cube1 {
    position: relative;
    width: 400px;
    height: 400px;
    float: left;
}

.contact {
    overflow: hidden;
    position: absolute;
    width: 400px;
    height: 386px;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    background: rgba(255,255,255,0.95);
    color: #aaa;
    visibility: hidden;
    opacity: 0;
}

.cube1:hover .contact {
    visibility: visible;
    opacity: 1;
}

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

answers already provided. but probably you should get rid of visibility and opacity and use only display. — gp., Aug 25 '13 at 04:07

Sobin Augustine · Answer 1 · 2013-10-20T20:27:45.317

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change the p {margin:0px} of the p element or give the class

.contact {
    overflow: hidden;
    position: absolute;
    width: 400px;
    height: 395px;//change height also to cover it completly
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    background: rgba(255,255,255,0.95);
    color: #aaa;
    visibility: hidden;
    opacity: 0;
    margin:0px
}

edited Oct 20 '13 at 20:27

answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:35

Sobin Augustine

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.contact { margin-top:0px; } – gp. Aug 25 '13 at 03:37

Jeffpowrs · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-25T04:03:32.720

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Remove the height from contact. as well as the margin. You also don't need the width value if you're stretching it with the absolute 0 0 0 0 method.

.contact {
    overflow: hidden;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    background: rgba(255,255,255,0.95);
    color: #aaa;
    visibility: hidden;
    opacity: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

edited Aug 25 '13 at 04:03

answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:39

Jeffpowrs

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Why did I receive a -1? – Jeffpowrs Aug 25 '13 at 04:02

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:34

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The image has the text over it, I am not sure what you are trying to do here. What do you mean by "covering the image"?

answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:34

gespinha

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:37

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You need to set margin on the "p" element to 0 and the "height" to 400:

margin:0;
height:400px;

Updated jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rMhGE/5/

answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:37

htxryan

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And the height for the `p` element should be `400px` to match the image. – Michal Aug 25 '13 at 03:40
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I realized that the absolute position along with 0 for top/bot/left/right was setting the height/width perfectly already, so you can get rid those outright. – Michal Aug 25 '13 at 03:44

Bhojendra Rauniyar · Answer 5 · 2013-08-25T03:51:17.210

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Demo

Remove the height from .contact and apply top: -15px; bottom: -15px;

Alternatively, the best way, set margin: 0; removing height.

edited Aug 25 '13 at 03:51

answered Aug 25 '13 at 03:46

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Showing Text When Hovering Over an Image Link

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