Popups by CSS not JavaScript

This Old Code — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:04:51 GMT

This Old Code - Popups by CSS not JavaScript

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re: SYSK 339: Menus and Other Popups Without Any JavaScript

Michael Luthardt — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:51:55 GMT

I just stumbled over this post where you credit Eric Meyer for anchor pop ups.

This is an idea much older.

I use it on my website for years as so called "Info Box". It was in times of IE6 (still not over) the only possibility to imitate a standards compliant rollover for all browsers and platforms without any scripting.

Unfortunately, even IE7 does not support pseudo class :hover on <div>'s. So I will use it still longer (till IE8?).

BTW, I think it's simpler to assign a class to the anchor tag <a> where the <span> is nested into. Then, <a class="info">hover over<span>pop this up</span><a/> does the trick everywhere on your site.

I'm not the inventor of this, too. I optimized a similar idea found elsewhere on the web for my needs.