Load image on hover over <a> - html

Question

While I wasn't that concerned about it in the beginning, I noticed that my page size is about 9 MB (+/- 200 images). I want to somehow decrease this by only loading the image when the user hovers over the specific <a>, so that only that image is loaded (which should decrease the page size drastically).
The code below is what I'm using right now
<style>
div.img {
display: none;
position: absolute;
}
a:hover + div.img {
display: block;
}
</style>
<div>
Some Name
<div class="img">
<img src="http://sub.domain.com/somename.jpg" alt="Some Name" style="some styles">
</div>
</div>
I think it's possible with jQuery, but I don't know where to start.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well if you have around 200 images in your directory, when a client requests the webpage it is going to have to download the images to have them ready if you are using a single page layout. I would look into lazy loading just as Adam stated. If you can also I would suggest to try to compress the photos if you can to lower the file size if possible. Good luck!

Answer 2

I fixed my problem by adapting an existing pen-code to adjust my needs (using jQuery). It now works again in IE/Firefox
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function($) {
$('.trigger').mouseover(function() {
// find our span
var elem = $(this).siblings('span');
// get our img url
var src = elem.attr('data-original');
// change span to img using the value from data-original
elem.replaceWith('<img src="' + src + '" style="display:block;position:absolute;"/>');
});
$('.trigger').mouseout(function() {
// find our span
var elem = $(this).siblings('img');
// get our img url
var src = elem.attr('src');
// change span to img using the value from data-original
elem.replaceWith('<span data-original="'+src+'"></span>');
});
});
</script>
Hover over me to fetch an image
<span data-original="https://lorempixel.com/g/150/200/"></span>

Answer 3

you can put the image with no src attribute and put the specific src in the href of div or the image!
then use jquery to get the href of a or data-src of image and then give it to the image the code will be something like this:
<a class="image" href="the-src-of-the-image">
<img src="(leave this blank)">
</a>
and this is the jquery
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$('.image').on('hover',function(){
var img_src = $(this).attr('href');
$(this).children('img').attr('src',img_src);
});
});