Is it possible to change img src attribute using css? - css

Question

I'm trying to change img src (not the background img src) with css
<img id="btnUp" src="img/btnUp.png" alt="btnUp"/>
#btnUp{
cursor:pointer;
}
#btnUp:hover{
src:img/btnUpHover; /* is this possible ? It would be so elegant way.*/
}

Answer 1

You can use :
content: url("/_layouts/images/GEARS_AN.GIF")

Answer 2

There is another way to fix this : using CSS box-sizing.
HTML :
<img class="banner" src="http://domaine.com/banner.png">
CSS :
.banner {
display: block;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
background: url(http://domain2.com/newbanner.png) no-repeat;
width: 180px; /* Width of new image */
height: 236px; /* Height of new image */
padding-left: 180px; /* Equal to width of new image */
}
http://css-tricks.com/replace-the-image-in-an-img-with-css/

Answer 3

you could try something like this
<img id="btnUp" src="empty.png" alt="btnUp" />
or
<div id="btnUp" title="btnUp"> <div/>
#btnUp{
cursor:pointer;
width:50px;
height:50px;
float:left;
}
#btnUp{
background-image:url('x.png')
}
#btnUp:hover{
background-image:url('y.png')
}

Answer 4

You can use CSS to a) make the original image invisible by setting its width and height to 0, or moving it off-screen etc, and b) insert a new image in its ::before or ::after pseudo-element.
That will be a performance hit though, as the browser will then load both the original and the new image. But it won't require Javascript!

Answer 5

You can't set the image src attribute via CSS. you can get is, as if you wanted to set use background or background-image.

Answer 6

No - CSS can only be used to change CSS background images, not HTML content.
In general UI elements (not content) should be rendered using CSS backgrounds anyway. Swapping classes can swap background images.

Answer 7

You can use a mixture of JavaScript and CSS to achieve this, but you can not do this with CSS alone. <img id="btnUp" src="empty.png" alt="btnUp" onmouseover="change(img)" onmouseout="changeback(img)" />
Instead of img you would put file name sans file type.
function change(img){
document.getElementById("btnUp").src= img + ".png";
}
function changeback(img){
document.getElementById("btnUp").src= img + ".png";
}
Then you use CSS to modify the img tag or the id to your liking.

Answer 8

You could set the image to a completely transparent image, then change the background image like so:
img {
background-image: url("img1.png");
}
//For example, if you hover over it.
img:hover {
background-image: url("img2.png");
}
The images do have to be the same size though. :(
Hope this helps!

Answer 9

content:url('imagelinkhere');
This is working, I tested it