I've been going insane with this j-query slider I adapted from juliendecaudin's barousel plugin
I've put it all on jsfiddle:
The four navigation blocks are created by the jquery code (which is why I'm having this problem). So because I needed text over each blocks, I added some p tags to the code and then positioned them over each block. This meant that they covered the links, and consequently the hover effects stop.
I have tried multiple things I thought would make it work with what limited jquery knowledge I have (when you hover over the p tag, show the relevant background image at the correct width and height and positioned, for instance) But none have worked!
What I would love to know is how to make the text act as a link like the navigation blocks, but also, make it so that when you hover over the text, the background image hovers too. Alternatively if there's a way I could fuse the two together that would be swell!
The html bit where I added the p-tags is here (the jquery code automatically creates the html ul li elements:
<div class="barousel_nav">
<p class="abs abs1">Value Proposition Development</p>
<p class="abs abs2">Sales Engagement</p>
<p class="abs abs3">Customer Communications</p>
<p class="abs abs4">Insight-driven Lead Generation Campaigns</p>
</div>
If I could specifiy each nav ul li link then I should be able to create a workaround, but as it stands each li has nothing specific about it!
You can change some bits to put it to work as you'd expect:
On the jquery.barousel.js file, look for this snippet:
//build the navigation
if (settings.navType == 1) {
//items navigation type
var strNavList = "<ul>";
And change it, by adding a class (navigationMenu) to the ul:
//build the navigation
if (settings.navType == 1) {
//items navigation type
var strNavList = "<ul class='navigationMenu'>";
On your page header, after you load all the libraries, add the snippet below:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
// Look for all the spans which contains the class abs, and move them
// to the li accordingly.
$("span.abs").each(function (index, element) {
var target = $("ul.navigationMenu li")[index];
$(this).appendTo($(target).find("a"));
});
});
</script>
Change your CSS, by removing unused rules:
.barousel {
height:408px;
margin-bottom:85px;
position:relative;
width:750px;
}
.barousel_wrap {
float:right;
height:408px;
width:650px;
}
.barousel_image {
background-image:url(http://oliverbanham.com/quantumSite/images/SLIDER/images/bgGrayGradient.jpg);
background-position:initial initial;
background-repeat:repeat no-repeat;
height:306px;
padding-left:10px;
width:660px;
}
.barousel_image img {
display:none;
position:absolute;
}
.barousel_image img.default {
display:block;
}
.barousel_image img.current {
z-index:10;
}
.barousel_content {
background-color:#6D4682;
background-image:url(http://oliverbanham.com/quantumSite/images/SLIDER/images/largegrad_05.jpg);
background-position:initial initial;
background-repeat:repeat no-repeat;
display:block;
height:auto;
margin:0;
padding:5px 10px 0;
width:650px;
}
.barousel_content div {
display:none;
margin-bottom:7px;
width:650px;
}
.barousel_content div.default {
display:block;
height:auto;
padding-bottom:7px !important;
}
.barousel_content p {
color:white;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:16px;
margin-bottom:8px !important;
top:0;
z-index:50;
}
.barousel_content p.sliderH {
font-weight:bold;
margin-bottom:5px;
}
.barousel_nav {
float:left;
height:408px;
width:100px;
z-index:20;
}
/*.barousel_nav p.abs {
cursor:pointer;
display:inline-block;
font-size:11px;
left:5px;
margin:0 auto;
position:absolute;
text-align:center;
width:90px;
}
.barousel_nav p.abs1 {
top:35px;
}
.barousel_nav p.abs2 {
top:135px;
}
.barousel_nav p.abs3 {
bottom:140px;
}
.barousel_nav p.abs4 {
bottom:25px;
left:5px;
}*/
.barousel_nav ul {
float:right;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.barousel_nav li {
float:left;
/*font-size:0;
line-height:0;*/
list-style:none;
padding-left:3px;
}
.barousel_nav li a {
background-image:url(http://oliverbanham.com/quantumSite/images/SLIDER/images/BTN_01.jpg);
display:block;
/*font-size:0;*/
height:102px;
/*line-height:0;*/
text-decoration:none;
width:100px;
}
.barousel_nav li a:hover {
background-image:url(http://oliverbanham.com/quantumSite/images/SLIDER/images/current_BTN_01.jpg);
}
.barousel_nav li a.current {
background-image:url(http://oliverbanham.com/quantumSite/images/SLIDER/images/current_BTN_01.jpg);
}
And finally, slightly change your HTML:
<span class="abs">Value Proposition Development</span>
<span class="abs">Sales Engagement</span>
<span class="abs">Customer Communications</span>
<span class="abs">Insight-driven Lead Generation Campaigns</span>
Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/psFMs/2/
Of course there are some CSS tweaks to be done and make it look nicer, but the essential is here.