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Posted November 21, 2014 9:08am by

On hover change the image. avoid http request every time on hover ?

Hi, i’m working on e-commerce website. On the catalogue, each product image have a second link cached in a data attribute. On hover, i replace the original src with the data attribute link that make an http request to load the new image.

I would like to know, if there is another method to do the same job without making an http request on each hover event ?

Or if there is a method to load the data attribute images on background. ?

Thanks.

1 Answer

November 24, 2014 8:19pm

You could use image sprites. The technique being that you load both images as one image initially and then reposition what is displayed using CSS.

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