Comments on: Tutorial: Using CSS For Image Descriptions

By: Essex

Essex — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:13:53 +0000

Was explaining this to someone and eventually just gave them your link, thanks for a good tutorial

By: RG

RG — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:59:13 +0000

Well now that I think about it, MU is not what you’re looking for – it’s more of a multi-blog platform that a multi-user platform. Apparently it’s not named as aptly as it could be.

By: DirtyLaundryDiva

DirtyLaundryDiva — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:19:16 +0000

This is an asy to follow tutorial, thanks for posting this. I’ll need to give it a try now…

To answer the question you left on my blog, no I am not using wordpress mu. I probably should be huh? Just learned about it when you asked it I was using it. I looked it up. ;-P

By: Juhi

Juhi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:52:28 +0000

Exactly. But I will, soon.

{Juhi’s last literary creation – one week deep in college}

By: RG

RG — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:36:56 +0000

@Zhu -
You’re welcome! Do tell me how your experiments go.

@Juhi -
If you can’t wait to try it out, just do it…well, after you’re done with those NIFT assignments of course.

By: Juhi

Juhi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:25:36 +0000

I havnt had the opportunity to try out the hover tricks coupled with ‘display:’ tags, since i first discovered them on a Web Designer Wall tutorial. this tutorial made me itch further…its like JS tricks with CSS…can’t wait to try out!

{Juhi’s last literary creation – one week deep in college}

By: Zhu

Zhu — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:22:34 +0000

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for. I bookmarked and will experiment when I come back from China.

Thank you!

{Zhu’s last literary creation – Gone To Beijing!}

By: RG

RG — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:28:08 +0000

Sadly, tooltips require a tiny bit of javascript thrown in, and I’m averse to using that since some people either don’t have javascript compatible browsers, or surf with it turned off.

You can, however, limit the size and change the position of the descriptive div, as well as its opacity. In fact, you can even have all descriptions for all images appear in the very same place, or have a tiny semi-transparent strip at the bottom containing a caption.

As with all things CSS, the possibilities are practically endless.

By: Sahil

Sahil — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:54:11 +0000

Hmm … nice idea there although, admittedly, I’m not a fan. I guess I prefer my image to still be there when I hover, since most of such images link to their own larger versions. How about making the caption appear as a tooltip, though? (using CSS, of course)