How is this done?

[Wulfgen]

During my surfing around the web I've noticed some people have a small
thumbnail on a page, and when you click on it a larger file/swf/image expands out the the center of the page -this has a "close window' link which makes the window dissapear. All this happens over the existing page content - ooh nice - but how??

My knowledge of flash tells me that if the file is say 320x320 then that space has to allocated for the flash file - but the thumbnail is only about 120x40.

Is it in a div? or the backgound set to transparent? is there a tutorial out there that explains how to achieve this effect?

 

[oldnewbie]

You mean something like this?

http://www.joshstudio.com/

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[Wulfgen]

No, thats a flash file set to 100% to fill the screen - what i'm talking about is a regular html page with an embedded swf file that looks like a thumbnail but expands bigger as I mentioned

 

[oldnewbie]

Can you provide a link to one of those?

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[ciscotx]

oldnewbie do you have a tutorial on how your example at

http://www.joshstudio.com/

is done??? Thanks

 

[Wulfgen]

I'm still looking about - the last time I saw something like it was on NBC.com