Christian Heilmann

Minislides – inline slide shows with DOM and CSS

Friday, March 17th, 2006 at 1:53 pm

As part of my book, I am right now writing the “common uses of JavaScript” Chapter, and this morning a request by Michel Bozgounov on the CSS-d list tickled my fancy.

He wanted an easy way to show slightly larger images when clicking on very small thumbs inside a page. While his solution would force visitors to load all the images (including the large ones), I quickly put together a solution that only loads the larger images in the same list when JS is available.

This is only a beta and a freebie. The full version with explanations is part of the book and I cannot give it out (yet) as it will be part of the whole copyright and all that Jazz.

Enjoy, and hopefully you find it useful.

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