Rollover Link Previews

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Synchronium, Aug 1, 2007.

  1. #1
    How do these actually generate a preview of the link?
     
    Synchronium, Aug 1, 2007 IP
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    What do you mean?
     
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    Like on iwebtool.com - when you hover over the sponsored links at the bottom, a preview window comes up. I understand how to move a div element around with the mouse and stuff, but I can't work out how they generate the preview images.
     
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    Ah. There are a couple of ways. One is to manually create a snapshot of the page in question ("Print Screen" on your keyboard, then open your graphics program and paste it in there and save). The other is to create a program that will crawl the site and take a snapshot of it. Unfortunately THAT is way above my skill level.
     
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    That could work too. Haven't heard of them before.
     
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