How can I swap out text in a text-box by using only CSS mouse related events?

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The way I have my page set up right now is pretty solid. I have a gallery of pictures, and when your mouse is over top of one of the small icons, a larger one pops up and the largest image on the page changes to that image. I did this all using onMouseOver and onMouseOff events via inline CSS.

However, I'd like to do the same thing with the text box. Say, when I hover over the picture of the dog, I want the text in the div near the bottom of the page called "dogdiv" to appear in the text box with the id textarea. I know how to do this with JavaScript (JS) but due to restrictions on the server we're using, that's no longer an option. It has to be straight CSS.

I know it's possible, I just can't seem to find out how. Could any of you tell me what I need to do in order to make this work?

 

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Matt · Accepted Answer

This is what you need



  
    
    
    #thumbs {
  float: left;
  width: 100%;
  padding: 20px 0;}

#thumbs li {
  float: left;
  display: inline;
  margin-right: 10px;}

#thumbs li .large-thumb { display: none; /*Hide the large thumb*/}

#thumbs li:hover .large-thumb { display: block; /*Show on Hover*/}



I will leave the remaining CSS for you to do but you will need to position the li relatively and then position the large thumbs absolutely to achieve what you're trying to do.

Hope this helps :-)

How can I swap out text in a text-box by using only CSS mouse related events?

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