How to link a graphic file to a HTML link?

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Hi guys,

It may sound silly but I’m trying to create a link in HTML, which I have done, that is linked to a image… however the text is below the corresponding image!

So once the image is rolled over I want the styles I have set with ‘text link style’ (below image in HTML) action to be linked to the image once the graphic is rolled over.

I.E when image is rolled over it activates the html link below too, i.e underlines it etc

Is this possible or easier another way!

I just want to preserve the HTML element and not make it as a graphic file!

Thanx

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Not silly at all. So you have an image with text below it, and you
want that text to gain a link after you click on another control?

some link text

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some more text

You could do this using JavaScript, but it’s not going to be really
easy. Another more Freeway-centric way to do this would be to
duplicate the text box containing ‘some more text’ in place, so it’s
floating directly above the current version. Be sure you give it an
opaque background color to match your page background. Then apply the
Show Hide Layer Action to that box, and set it to initially hidden.
Replace the some link text with a Rollover Text action instance,
and set it to trigger your hidden layer into view.

There’s probably another way to do this using the new Scriptaculous
effects if you’re on Freeway 5.

Walter

On Mar 19, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Mr worm wrote:

Hi guys,

It may sound silly but I’m trying to create a link in HTML, which I
have done, that is linked to a image… however the text is below
the corresponding image!

So once the image is rolled over I want the styles I have set with
‘text link style’ (below image in HTML) action to be linked to the
image once the graphic is rolled over.

I.E when image is rolled over it activates the html link below
too, i.e underlines it etc

Is this possible or easier another way!

I just want to preserve the HTML element and not make it as a
graphic file!

Thanx

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Not silly at all. So you have an image with text below it, and you
want that text to gain a link after you click on another control?

some link text

±----------------+
| |
| |
| |
| |
±----------------+

some more text

Thanks Walt!

Your explanation and diagram helped me achieve what I was after.

My solution was:

web site

±----------------+
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| |
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±----------------+

link text

‘linktext’ is the HTML link and will underline once EITHER the image ‘±–+’ or html ‘link text’ is rolled over, therefore I can preserve the html element in this!

I made the link text ‘text link style’ as normal, then dupliated this layer however with no fomatting i.e No link applied, and created a new text style to match that of the hover state of my ‘html link’ and placed this over the top in place.

Then applied slave/hide layer action, set initially to hidden as you suggested, and finally drew a blank graphic box to the size that mimicked the graphic in question, again placeed it over the top of the graphic and applied a rollover action/mouse over/corrosponding group’aqua’.

Thus: Once empty graphic box was rolled over it triggered the slave/hidden layer ‘set to initially hidden’ to reveal the link, and it also preserved the html link undneath that, that also worked once rolled over!

A little messy but does the job!

well except where they meet, which gives a slight flicker when mouseing between them, obviously freeway can determine there are 2 seperate elements!

Dont know if I can solve this, maybe group them?

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