Re: Downloadable fonts and image replacement

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:47:46 +0200, Lance Carlson <lancecarlson@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> It would be even cooler if you could use the :hover selector to define  
> the src of an attribute. This would make DHTML layers completely  
> obscolete.
> Think about how beautiful that be... to express in CSS.

That's already possible.

   http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html

... is the oldest example I know that does exactly that. The problem with  
that is that :hover is input device specific. Without a mouse or  
equivalent device (often not available on mobile phones for example) you  
won't be able to access any of the submenus...


> THAT would be sweet. On the same token you could use src to change the  
> image  if your menus were images.

That's already possible. (Although a bit different from how you describe  
it.)

  http://wellstyled.com/css-nopreload-rollovers.html

... is one of the better examples I believe.


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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:55:37 UTC