>http://appia.dramatic.co.nz/~admin7/index.php is attempting to use a >hover effect on the left-hand column where the background image >changes from monochrome to colour. I can't use a traditional "2 images >in 1" sprite because you cannot position a background image in pixels >relative to the right-hand side of a box. > >SO I have the coloured image as the background to the main wrapper div >and hovering the div #colleft switches the position of colleft's >background from right to left (= out of sight). However, the hover is >also triggering on the main column, presumably because this is a child >of #colleft, even though is is positioned entirely to the right of it >(the blue border exists for debugging only). is there any way to >"cancel" the hover for .col1? > >or can anyone see an alternative method. (I can't use col2 as that is >not full-height). >I considered using a "vertical sprite", but there would be some length >of page for which that would look ugly, and it would presumably siffer >from exactly the same triggering issue.
Richard: I'm not sure what you're doing, but I am thinking you're making this more difficult than it should be. Here's something that looks difficult, but isn't. http://sperling.com/examples/image-replacement/ Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
