linkable image with a mouseover text

Question

I wanted to make this linkable image to have a text in a pop up box (not the type of pop up that is on w3schools, I want a classic yellowish box) when I mouseover. I tried to do it like this

<div class="folder1"> 
<a href="yourlinkhere" target="_self" >
<img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c00202bad8ae39931e34a7efa861d18b/tumblr_p70bjja6xI1x5vw3ao1_500.png" height="46" width="57"
title="This is some text I want to display." </a>  
</div>

Opening the page in the link works great but there is no pop up box when I hover on it. Any help?

what do you mean by "a classic yellowish box" ? a tooltip? please clarify — Rachel Gallen, Jun 26 '18 at 23:03
something like this http://sites.cognitivescience.co/knowledgebase/_/rsrc/1468750138530/resources/using-google-sites/creating-mouseover-text-with-html/mouseover.png — Percy Dogue, Jun 26 '18 at 23:11

Frex · Answer 1 · 2018-06-26T23:14:18.250

Currently, you are setting the title attribute to get a tooltip type hint when the element is hovered over. If this is what you are looking to do but perhaps just style the textbox to be, say, yellow, I would suggest using the following:

a {
  color: #900;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
  color: red;
  position: relative;
}

a[data]:hover:after {
  content: attr(data);
  padding: 4px 8px;
  color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 100%;
  white-space: nowrap;
  z-index: 2;
  border-radius: 5px ;
  background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); /*Change this to yellow, or whatever background color you desire*/
}

<a data="This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link"href="#" class="tip">Link</a>

The above code was provided by Peeyush Kushwaha in this post. Simply change the anchor tag to your image tag, and apply styles as you see fit.

If by 'popup' you are looking for an alert to the user that requires interaction to close, you can use window.alert('text') in javascript in conjunction with the onmouseover event handler.

<img src="some_image.png" height="46px" width="57px" onmouseover="window.alert('Some Message')"/>

Otherwise, if you are looking for another element to be displayed upon mouseover of the image, you can use a bit of javascript to display a div or paragraph (really anything) upon mouseover of the img.

function showDiv() {
  document.getElementById('popupBox').style.display = 'block';
}

#popupBox {
  display: none;
}

<img src="some_image.png" width="41px" height="57px" onmouseover="showDiv()"/>
<div id="popupBox">Some Popup Text</div>

t-jam · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-27T00:35:08.197

You can do this simply with CSS, or you can use one of many simple 'tooltip' JavaScript options. Bootstrap for example has this tooltip functionality built-in, ready to use. If you want something basic, here's a simple CSS-only approach that you can customise to your needs:

<!-- padding added here so you can see the pop-up above the folder, not necessary in-page -->    
<div class="folder1" style="padding: 200px;">
  <a href="yourlinkhere" target="_self" class="popper">
    <img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c00202bad8ae39931e34a7efa861d18b/tumblr_p70bjja6xI1x5vw3ao1_500.png" height="46" width="57" />
    <span class="pop-up">This is some text I want to display.</span>
  </a>  
</div>

<style>
  a.popper {
    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;
  }

  .pop-up {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    bottom: 100%;
    padding: 1rem 1.5rem;
    background: yellow;
    color: black;
  }

  a.popper:hover .pop-up,
  a.popper:focus .pop-up {
    display: block;
  }
</style>

Basically, you position the a tag relatively so that it can have absolutely positioned children, then relying on a:hover you show / hide the child using the child element's display property.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '18 at 23:24

You can equally try this using css pseudo-element

a{
  position: relative;
}



a:hover:after{
  display:block;
  content: "This is some text I want to display";
  width: 200px;
  background: yellow;
  position: absolute;
  top:0;
  padding: 20px;
}

<div class="folder1" style="margin: 70px">
<a href="yourlinkhere" target="_self" class="">
<img src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/c00202bad8ae39931e34a7efa861d18b/tumblr_p70bjja6xI1x5vw3ao1_500.png" height="46" width="57"
</a>
</div>

linkable image with a mouseover text

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