Create book reviews that popup on title mouseover?

sdollen
(@sdollen)

18 years, 11 months ago

A friend asked me about creating a page where he can list titles of books he has read….and to somehow have a description showup for one book, then disappear when you read a description of another book.

I started thinking of maybe mouseovers on the title.

Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Basically make a page where he can add a title and a short description of the book. You mouseover the title and the description comes up, when you mouseover another book title it’s description pops up. While typing this out, I started thinking of “nice titles” and wondered if that might work for this?

Thanks in advance.

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Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

18 years, 11 months ago

Most current browsers support the title attribute in just about any X/HTML tag (and being a core attribute makes it valid just about everywhere), which is a low-effort version of the various nice title methods out there.

vkaryl
(@vkaryl)

18 years, 11 months ago

Isn’t the problem with both the inherent title and the “nicer titles” plugins the fact that there’s no way to induce line-breaks?

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

18 years, 11 months ago

I’d call it a limitation, but yep.

vkaryl
(@vkaryl)

18 years, 11 months ago

Okay – limitation it is. And I do wish some really clever sod would come up with a way to force those line-breaks, y’know?

jinsan
(@jinsan)

18 years, 11 months ago

Contact W3.org and tell em like it is 🙂

Michael Bishop
(@miklb)

18 years, 11 months ago

To the original poster, I am playing with the plugin Acronym Replacer as a sort of glossary, where important words, when moused over, give a brief definition of the word. I don’t know why that wouldn’t work with what you are describing.
Plugin found here

Marc
(@marc)

18 years, 11 months ago

You might want to try avatar popup (http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-avatar-gravatar-popup/)

It’s designed for avatars or any other photo/image associated with a word or text in your blog entry.

You could make 200px x 200px or larger images with a small synopsis or review of the book, associate it with the book title. When hovered over the image would popup.

Just a thought and believe it would work better than acronym replacer mentioned above.

Michael Bishop
(@miklb)

18 years, 11 months ago

Just a thought and believe it would work better than acronym replacer mentioned above.

Perhaps, but depending on how many books are reviewed, the reviewer may find himself creating a lot of images, and taking up more and more space. Acronym replacer is simply a text file.
Bottom line, both are viable options for the user to look at.