Dreamweaver - Re: - Replacing GIF buttons with Input Buttons (CSS)... can I..?

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Re: - Replacing GIF buttons with Input Buttons (CSS)... can I..?

Jon Yeager

2004-09-09, 7:17 pm

And I quote :

"The downside is that I need to fire up Photoshop whenever I want to change
the dimensions or text in these buttons."

Your proposed solution solves one problem, but not the other. I'd rather not
use an image because I can't change button dimensions on the fly that way.

Again, while I appreciate your concern, my reasons for wishing to use input
buttons is not what's in question here. The question was : can CSS be used
to imitate an ALT text line on mouseover, which was the big advantage of
using GIF buttons? And could I change the appearance of the button (color or
text) OnClick without refreshing the page, like I could with GIFs using a
javascript image swap?

"Murray *TMM*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
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> No. Oh, you mean because you can specify the text there? Bah.
>
> Just make a text link, and use CSS to assign a background image to it.
> Have the background image be a generic button image. Let your a:hover
> style assign a new background image to the text link. You get the best of
> both worlds then, no?
>
> You can see buttons I have done this way on this site -
>
> http://www.midwestespresso.com
>
> Those are text links, and the button images are CSS background images. In
> this particular case, the background images only change the icon to the
> left of the text, but that's easy to adapt.
>
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Murray *TMM*

2004-09-09, 7:17 pm

> question was : can CSS be used to imitate an ALT text line on mouseover

No. This is not what CSS does. You can, however, use js to reveal
previously hidden information onMouseOver.

> And could I change the appearance of the button (color or text) OnClick
> without refreshing the page, like I could with GIFs using a javascript
> image swap?

Only by using javascript to swap classes.

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"Jon Yeager" <nospam@please.com> wrote in message
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> And I quote :
>
> "The downside is that I need to fire up Photoshop whenever I want to
> change the dimensions or text in these buttons."
>
> Your proposed solution solves one problem, but not the other. I'd rather
> not use an image because I can't change button dimensions on the fly that
> way.
>
> Again, while I appreciate your concern, my reasons for wishing to use
> input buttons is not what's in question here. The question was : can CSS
> be used to imitate an ALT text line on mouseover, which was the big
> advantage of using GIF buttons? And could I change the appearance of the
> button (color or text) OnClick without refreshing the page, like I could
> with GIFs using a javascript image swap?
>
>
>
>
> "Murray *TMM*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
> news:chkqse$7vg$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
>