Hover image popup

HTML & CSS
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Hi all!
I want to put a gallery on my website…where images magnify when hovered on the thumbnails. After looking at some examples I found this one has better cross browser support.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css-popup-image-viewer/P80/

My problem is i cant get the thumbnails to line up side by side. It seem to appear ok on the above url page. Shouldn’t we be using floats? I tried with floats but there is a problem with image borders. Can anyone spare some time to take a look…please. Thanks in advance.
Here is the CSS code.


<style type="text/css">

/*Credits: Dynamic Drive CSS Library */
/*URL: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/ */

.thumbnail{
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
}

.thumbnail:hover{
background-color: transparent;
z-index: 50;
}

.thumbnail span{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
position: absolute;
background-color: lightyellow;
padding: 5px;
left: -1000px;
border: 1px dashed gray;
visibility: hidden;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}

.thumbnail span img{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
border-width: 0;
padding: 2px;
}

.thumbnail:hover span{ /*CSS for enlarged image on hover*/
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 60px; /*position where enlarged image should offset horizontally */

}

</style>

and the HTML ,


<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/tree_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="66px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/tree.jpg" /><br />Simply beautiful.</span></a>

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/ocean_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="66px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/ocean.jpg" /><br />So real, it's unreal. Or is it?</span></a>

Sorry for the long post.
I am posting it here as Sitepoint has better experts who are very helpful.

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Floats won’t work. You need to use either absolute or relative positioning for this. The ideas at dynamic drive are good, but also check this site for a better explanation of the techniques and, IMO, an easier way to accomplish your goal. :slight_smile:

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