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Need help getting CSS sprite rollover to work

Hello, experts. I've been staring at this problem for several days now. (I'm stubborn.) I am trying to get a sprite rollover to work on this page:

http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/TIR_rollovers.html

When you mouse over the Home image, the image should be replaced with another, blue version of the image.

The background image is located here: http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/header.png

The goal, in the end, will be to set up all of the rollover images displayed in the header.png file, above.

Thank you for any advice.

Eric

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>TIR Sprite Setup</title>
<!--<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="nav.css" />-->
<style type="text/css">

html	{
margin:0;
}

body {
	margin:0 auto;
	padding:0;
	}

/* Navigation
----------------- */

#navlist {   position:relative;/* background: transparent url(header.png) no-repeat;*/ width:1008px; height:390px; margin:0 auto; padding:0;
}

#navlist li {   padding:0;list-style:none;position:absolute;top:180px; left:70px;   }

#navlist li, #navlist a {     height:94px;display:block;   }

#navHome        a {width:93px; height:94px;}

#navHome a:link, #navHome a:visited    {background: transparent url('http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/header.png') -70px -180px;}

#navHome a:hover, #navHome a:focus    {background: url('http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/header.png') -70px -394px;}

</style>


</head>

<body>

<ul id="navlist">
    <li id="navHome"><a href="http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/"></a></li>
    <li id="navAuthor"><a href="http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/pages/About-Jeremy-Rifkin.cfm"></a></li>
    <li id="navPress"><a href="http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/press.cfm"></a></li>
    <li id="navBlog"><a href="http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/blog.cfm"></a></li>
</ul>

</body>
</html>

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Gregg

Please add text links to your navigation.

<style type="text/css">
#navlist a {
	text-indent: -9999px;
}
</style>


<li id="navHome"><a href="yourWebsite.com">Home</a></li>

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Eric Bourland

ASKER

Gregg, thank you, I will try this now.

Eric

Eric Bourland

ASKER

Gregg, thank you. This worked for the lower navigation links: Home, Author, Press, Blog. You can see it here:

http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/TIR_rollovers.html

Now I need to figure out a way to add CSS sprite rollovers for the top three navigation menu items: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube; and for the "Buy The Book" image. I might ask another question to get help with that.

Thank you again. Have a great evening.

Eric

Gregg

Good job!

I would think its the same concept. Do you have the rollover graphics created for the next section?

Gregg

Scratch last comment. I see them now in updated page.

Eric Bourland

ASKER

Gregg,

Yep, I will apply the same concept. All of the graphics for all rollover items are located in one PNG image: http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/header.png

I am working first on the "social media" rollovers.

Thanks again for your help. Take care.

Eric

Eric Bourland

ASKER

I got it working. =)

http://thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/test/TIR_rollovers.html

Gregg

Awesome! Thats a great trick to implement. :-D

Gregg

You should be able to use a relative path in the image source. I used full url to see it locally.

background: url(images/header.png)
background: url(header.png)

Hover images are perfect, good job.