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"Alfred Molon" <> wrote in message
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> I'd like to add the following feature to my site.
>
> When somebody is on an image page, for instance:
> http://www.molon.de/galleries/Egypt/.../img.php?pic=2
>
> and hovers the mouse cursor on the right part of the image a white arrow
> (">" shape) appears inside the image, close to the right border.
> Moving the mouse cursor out of the right part of the image makes the
> white arrow disappear.
> Clicking the mouse on the right arrow brings you to the next image of
> the gallery (in this case Nr 3).
>
> And the same with the left part of the image (a "<" arrow appears close
> to the left border, click on it and you go to the previous image).
>
> I've seen something similar on some sites and I guess this can be done
> with Java, but how?

There are several free utilities out there that you can download and drop
into your page. Perhaps the best known one is Lightbox.

There is a demo of Lightbox here:
http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/

Perhaps you want something with row of thumbnails below the image that one
can click on. I'm sure a google search will bring up something that you
like.

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MG