CSS Rollover Image Effect - Change Image on Hover

The rollover image may be a design feature where a picture changes when your mouse hovers over it. consider a light-weight bulb that activates and off once you move your mouse cursor into that area of a page. When a page is loading, rollover images are preloaded into it to make sure that the rollover effect is displayed quickly.


This wont to be implemented using JavaScript, which is fairly easy with just a little amount of script involved. to form rollover images functional, onmouseover and onmouseout attributes are wont to a link tag. The code is then added to a blog gadget or into a replacement post. It proved to possess a variety of disadvantages, however, which is why many web developers are employing a CSS-only method.



How to create a rollover image using CSS

Here is the way to implement a rollover image using CSS. Before getting started, we'd like to possess two images ready, one in its initial/static state also as its rollover state.

The Image Place both the static and rollover image in one file and confirm that the rollover image is placed on top of the static one. to realize the rollover effect, we'll write a code to display the static image and crop the hover image, in order that just one image state is displayed at a time.

For this tutorial, we'll use the subsequent as a CSS rollover image.



html rollover image

Creating an HTML Anchor Element for our Image

Instead of adding the image file in a <img> tag, we'll display it as a background image of an </a> (anchor) tag. Here's the HTML that we need to add:
<a class="rolloverimage" href="#URL">Rollover Image</a>
Note: if you want to make the image clickable, replace #URL with the url of the webpage where you want the link to point to.

Using CSS to Set a Background Image

To create the mouseover image effect, we'll use the : hover CSS pseudo-class. Then, we'll use the background-position property and set the values to 0 0 to move the background image to the upper left corner which will create the rollover effect.
<style type="text/css">
.rolloverimage{
display: block;
width: 56px;
height: 90px;
background: url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FiOE7ZlqrFepQ5c74T0NbK0oEuJGZnTpNPU137xglgBRQsMXx2dNlJxVZ4N7CqgAHJUbWdWteMcm6nFtCxuVD4tYop_EgdKR8TeIdQBrY1GKwD7roG0a2rXt1z5thHuNfEtkDWIozLhO/s180/rollover-image-light-bulb-on-off.png') bottom;
text-indent: -99999px;
}
.rolloverimage:hover{
background-position: 0 0;
}
</style>

Note: Replace the text in blue with the url of your image file. Please pay attention on the width and height values marked in red, these should be different depending on your file, where the height value is for only one image and not the entire image file!

The result

Hover your mouse cursor over the light bulb to see the rollover image effect in action:

Rollover Image

Adding Rollover Image to Blogger

To add the rollover image as a gadget: copy both the HTML/CSS codes and go to 'Layout' > click on the 'Add a Gadget' link > select HTML/JavaScript, then paste the codes in the 'Content' box.

Or, if you want to add it inside one of your posts, when you create a New Post, switch to the HTML tab and paste the codes inside the content box.

And this is how you make images swap on mouseover using CSS. Enjoy!




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