Top 10 Widely Used Image Hover Effects In Blogosphere! ~ GprsBay

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Top 10 Widely Used Image Hover Effects In Blogosphere!

You might have seen a roll over Image effect in many professional and commercial blogs. By roll over I mean that when you hover your mouse cursor on the Image, the image border colour and style/appearance changes. Well using some simple CSS you can add some amazing effects to your Blog Images. Without wasting any time lets jump straight to the steps to be followed.

This tutorial uses a simple pattern for adding codes i.e First you will need to add a CSS code just above ]]></b:skin> and then you will need to add a small HTML code like class="xyz" to the image code inside your posts. That’s it! :)

First and Foremost See them in action!

Live Demo :- 10 Amazing Image Hover Effects!

How To Add the Top 10 Amazing Image Mouse Hover Effects To Blogger?

To do this follow these steps,

Go to Blogger > Layout > Edit HTML
Search for ]]></b:skin>
And now paste any of your preferred CSS: code just above ]]></b:skin>

Now whenever you write a post, simply upload an image in your blogger Editor and then switch to the Edit HTML mode and search for this code <img and paste the HTML: code of your preferred Image effect just after <img as shown below,
image-hover-effects

Number #1

CSS:

.simple1 {
padding:5px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
.simple1:hover {
padding:5px;
background-color:#ccc;
}

HTML:

class="simple1"

Number #2

CSS:

.simple2 {
padding:5px;
background-color:#ccc;
border:1px solid #ddd;
}
.simple2:hover {
padding:5px;
background-color:#eee;
border:1px solid #666;
}

HTML:

class="simple2"

Number #3

CSS:

.black-white {
padding:5px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
.black-white:hover {
padding:5px;
background-color:#fff;
border:10px solid #000;
}

HTML:

class="black-white"

Number #4

CSS:

.dashed {
padding:5px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
.dashed:hover {
padding:5px;
background-color:#fff;
border:2px dashed #000;
}

HTML:

class="dashed"

Number #5

CSS:

.top-bottom {
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
border-top:3px solid #ddd;
border-bottom:3px solid #ddd;
}
.top-bottom:hover {
background-color:#fff;
border-top:3px solid #000;
border-bottom:3px solid #000;
}

HTML:

class="top-bottom"

Number #6

CSS:

.curtain {
padding-top:10px;
padding-bottom:10px;
border-top:2px solid #ddd;
background-color:#000;
border-bottom:2px solid #ddd;
}
.curtain:hover {
background-color:#fff;
border-top:3px solid #000;
border-bottom:3px solid #000;
}

HTML:

class="curtain"

Number #7

CSS:

.red {
padding:5px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
.red:hover {
padding:5px;
background-color:#E71305;
border:10px solid #ddd;
}

HTML:

class="red"

Number #8

CSS:

.Fadein{
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
border:0;
}
.Fadein:hover{
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.30;
opacity: 0.30;
border:0;
}

HTML:

class="Fadein"

Number #9

CSS:

.Fadein2{
filter:alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.30;
opacity: 0.30;
border:2px solid #000;
}
.Fadein2:hover{
filter:alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
border:2px solid #000;
}

HTML:

class="Fadein2"

Number #10

CSS:

.thumbnail{
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
}
.thumbnail:hover{
background-color: transparent;
z-index: 50;
}
.thumbnail span{
position: absolute;
background-color: #7AA1C3;
padding: 0px;
left: -1000px;
border: 1px solid gray;
visibility: hidden;
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
}
.thumbnail span img{
border-width: 0;
padding: 0px;
}
.thumbnail:hover span{
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 5px;
}

HTML: For knowing how to apply this popping effect in detail read this post –> Image Pop-up Effect

<a class="thumbnail" href=""><img src="Add Image URL Here" width="100px" height="100px" border="0px" /><span><img src="Add Image URL Here" /><br /> Image Description here </span></a>

You can enjoy playing with these codes using MBT HTML Editor. I hope you will find this tutorial pretty useful in further enhancing your cool blogging experience :-)