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[Guest kjbirnie]

I am fairly new to Dreamweaver CS4. I have built two small websites, but nothing extensive or very dynamic.

 

I am working at putting up an online store, but until I get that ready, I have a list of new items on my website. My goal is that when someone runs their mouse over the name, a small popup window would appear with a picture of the product. Now upon researching this there seem to be several different ways to achieve this. I am looking for recommendations of the best functioning method. The idea that is my mind is to make the list a graphic and add hotspots (hope that's the correct terminology). Please advise.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kathy

[Wickham]

You can use javascript (or JQuery which is javascript) but that doesn't work if javascript/ActiveX is disabled, so there are pure CSS methods of hoverpopups like these:-

http://www.wickham43.net/hoverpopups.php

The text at the end of item 2 explains how to get the popup in the same place for several links; each needs a class with a different top and/or left offset.