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April 2, 2012 19:14
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Changing an image on hover
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<!-- First include the jQuery library. You can just include Google's hosted version of jQuery by including the below script. --> | |
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> | |
<!-- Then comes our code. --> | |
<script type="text/javascript"> | |
$(function(){ //Don't worry about this part | |
$('#image-to-switch').hover( //Finds the HTML element in the same way as CSS... this grabs the image with the id of "image-to-switch", then we call the magic hover function | |
function(){ //The hover function contains two other functions. The first defines what you want to do when the mouse enters the object | |
$(this).attr('src', 'some-new-image.jpg'); //$(this) refers to the element you selected previously (#image-to-switch). Then we ask to change the attribute (attr) named 'source' (src) to some new value (some-new-image.jpg) | |
}, | |
function(){ //...The second function defines what you want to do when the mouse leaves the object | |
$(this).attr('src', 'the-old-image.jpg'); //We'll want to change the img source back to the original image once the mouse leaves | |
}); | |
}); //Don't worry about this part | |
</script> |
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