How to show live preview in a small popup of linked page on mouse over on link?

Question

How to show live preview in a small popup of linked page on mouse over on link ?

like this

http://cssglobe.com/lab/tooltip/03/

but live preview

Answer 1

You can use an iframe to display a preview of the page on mouseover:

.box{
    display: none;
    width: 100%;
}

a:hover + .box,.box:hover{
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 100;
}

This live preview for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>
  <div class="box">
    <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/" width = "500px" height = "500px">
    </iframe>
  </div> 
remains open on mouseover.

Here's an example with multiple live previews:

.box{
    display: none;
    width: 100%;
}

a:hover + .box,.box:hover{
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 100;
}

Live previews for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>
  <div class="box">
     <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/" width = "500px" height = "500px">
     </iframe>
  </div> 
and <a href="https://www.jquery.com/">JQuery</a>
  <div class="box">
     <iframe src="https://www.jquery.com/" width = "500px" height = "500px">
     </iframe>
  </div> 
will appear when these links are moused over.

Answer 2

You can display a live preview of a link using javascript using the code below.

<embed src="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp" width="60" height="40" />
<p id="p1"><a href="http://cnet.com">Cnet</a></p>
<p id="p2"><a href="http://codegena.com">Codegena</a></p>
<p id="p3"><a href="http://apple.com">Apple</a></p>


<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link href="http://codegena.com/assets/css/image-preview-for-link.css" rel="stylesheet">     
  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
                $('#p1 a').miniPreview({ prefetch: 'pageload' });
                $('#p2 a').miniPreview({ prefetch: 'parenthover' });
                $('#p3 a').miniPreview({ prefetch: 'none' });
            });
  </script> <script src="http://codegena.com/assets/js/image-preview-for-link.js"></script>

Learn more about it at Codegena

id="p1" - Fetch image preview on page load.
id="p2" - Fetch preview on hover.
id="p3" - Fetch preview image each time you hover.

Answer 3

Another way is to use a website thumbnail/link preview service LinkPeek (even happens to show a screenshot of StackOverflow as a demo right now), URL2PNG, Browshot, Websnapr, or an alternative.

Answer 4

Personally I would avoid iframes and go with an embed tag to create the view in the mouseover box.

<embed src="http://www.btf-internet.com" width="600" height="400" />

Answer 5

I have done a little plugin to show a iframe window to preview a link. Still in beta version. Maybe it fits your case: https://github.com/Fischer-L/previewbox.