[thelist] awkward hover over text

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 12:09:06 CST 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:
> I see this commonly and have a request to make this happen.
>
> In a 200px wide right column with an image to the right (could be left
> for that matter) client wants a sentence of text to the left of the pic
> in the column that is a link, so say 15 words pushed into a narrow space
> floundering to 7-8 lines after wrapping.

CSS should get you quite far
you could rely on JS to get nicer hovers
Use 2 links - even if it is redundant and bad practice to have more
than 1 link pointing to same URL, sometimes the design decision
overweighs the machine reading solution.

ben

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