So here's what I'm trying to do:
I have two icons side by side, and underneath I have two spans that are hidden. When I mouse-over an icon I want the corresponding span to appear.
------------ HTML Part -----------------
<span class="icons"><!--ICONS-->
<li class="oneLI">one</li>
<li class="twoLI">two</li>
</span>
<span class="popups">
<span class="one"></span>
<span class="two"></span>
</span>
--------------CSS Part --------------
span.popups span.one,span.popups span.two{opacity:0;
span.icons:first-child:hover + span.popups span.one{opacity:1}
span.icons:last-child:hover + span.popups span.two{opacity:1}
Now obviously this doesn't quite work, how would I go about this using only CSS?
Let me explain your selector first which is
span.icons:first-child:hover + span.popups span.one{opacity:1}
Well, you are trying to select the first-child nested under span.icons
and on hover of that you select span.one
which is nested inside span.popups
but you are going wrong here, you are selecting adjacent span
element having .popups
which is not adjacent to the span
which is nested inside .icons
, but in general, your selector is wrong, CSS cannot select the parent, inshort, CSS cannot go back once it enters an element, it cannot move up the hierarchy.
So you cannot do that way, either you need to alter your DOM, and bring all the span
elements at the same level, or your hidden span
should be at the child level.
And another way to achieve this is by using position
, which I won't suggest here.
Also, your markup is invalid, you need to have ul
element around li
.
Lets alter the DOM and see how we can select
<span class="icons"><!-- Better use div here -->
<ul>
<li class="oneLI">one <br /><span class="one">Show Me</span></li>
<li class="twoLI">two <br /><span class="two">Show me as well</span></li>
</ul>
</span>
.icons li > span {
opacity: 0;
}
.icons li:hover > span {
opacity: 1;
}
<div class="icons">
<span class="hoverme">Hover Me</span>
<div id="hover1">First</div>
<span class="hoverme">Hover Me</span>
<div id="hover2">Second</div>
</div>
.icons > div[id] {
opacity: 0;
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
background: red;
}
.icons > span {
display: block;
}
.icons > span:hover + div {
opacity: 1;
}
You can use display
or visibilty
property as well, if you do not want to use opacity
as they are well suited when you want to transit an element using transition
.
Demo 3 (Using transition
if you are going for opacity
method)