update 29/11/2010 : please notice that the same functionality could be achieved using css only
Here is a quick way to use jQuery library to create a “visible on hover” action menu.
I’ll explain step by step how to do that.
1.) Create an html page with actions in a container
<html>
<head>
<title>Sam Beauvois | jQuery usage demo 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Visible on hover with jQuery demo.<h2>
<h3>Please put you mouse hover the following texts</h3>
<div>
Demo 1
<div>
<a href="#">action 1</a> | <a href="#">action 2</a> | <a href="#">action 3</a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Result is
simple page
2.) Link the jquery library (here from google code, but you can download the library at jquery.com) and add a css class to the container div and one other to the action div
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" ></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
Demo 1
<div>
<a href="#">action 1</a> | <a href="#">action 2</a> | <a href="#">action 3</a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
3.) Add a function :
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
ShowActionOnOver();
$(".hidden_action",this).hide(); // hide all
});
function ShowActionOnOver()
{
$(".hidden_action_container").hover(
function()
{
$(".hidden_action",this).show();
},
function()
{
$(".hidden_action",this).hide();
}
);
}
</script>
Now it’s functionnal, hover the zone to check :
4.) Now, add some css to make it nicer :
.hidden_action_container
{
padding : 15px 15px 15px 15px;
background-color: #DDDDDD;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#EEEEEE;
height:50px;
}
.hidden_action a
{
color:#999999;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight:bolder;
}
<head>
<link href="demo.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
And the final result looks like
http://www.sambeauvois.be/blog/2010/02/how-to-build-a-visible-on-hover-action-menu-with-css/
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