mouseover photo enlargement

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Dennis Gavin

trying to figure out how to make photos enlarge from
thumbnails. This is my first attemp at front page and I
am assuming there is a very easy way to do this that I
can't find. can I do it on the page I am working on as I
build it or must I cave it and try it in another mode?
I did my first web site in MS Publisjer many years ago
with no problem.
 
select the thumbnail that you've put on your page, click format/ dhtml/ then
select picture swap, on mouseover and browse to the picture that is the
full-size version.
you can also look here:
www.javascript-2.com for other scripts. I'm not sure that two different
size pictures for a mouseover picture swap will look very nice.
HTH
 
Chris,

Thanks for your reply. As you can see I am just now
getting to reading it. I was wondering about your concern
that 2 different size pictures will not look right. I am
not sure I understand why. My intention was to have the
ability for viewers to see larger pictures of remodeling
projects without having to have large pictures stagnant on
a page. I thought having thumbnails enlarge would allow
for more content on a page and thus have less pages to
wade through. I am thinking this be mean better
continuity. Is there something I am unaware of that would
make this undesireable?
I was hoping Front Page would be like anadvanced
version of Publisher with easy to use built in macros. I
am now thinking I might need to outsource this. All
comments and suggestons very much appreciated.

Dennis Gavin
(e-mail address removed)
 
In general when you do image swaps, the images must all be the same size, so
if you have 100 x 100 pixel thumbnail and you mouseover it to see a larger
400 x 400 pixel image, the large image will be resized in the browser to 100
x 100 to fix in the space originally used by the thumbnail or you will have
to have a area with a image already set to 400 x 400 pixels somewhere on the
page as the default and then when you mouseover the smaller image, the
JavaScript code would swap the default 400 x 400 pixel image with the image
large image of the thumbnail.

FP doesn't generate any JavaScript code to do the last function.

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Tom,

When I did a preview in my browser (IE) it worked. I
got the larger image, on a new page. I then had to go
back to the previous page. I would prefer it to all
happen in one page. Maybe that is what you are talking
about? You say front page won't do that? Bummer. It is
looking more and more like I will have to outsource this.
Thanks for you input.

Dennis
 
I was talking about doing what you want on the same page. You could do this
with a IFrame, where you click on the thumbnail it would then load the image
into IFrame. This requires that you set the target value of each thumbnail
link to the actual name of the assigned to the IFrame.

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