Display image on hover, centered in the background - html

Question

I went through a number of questions regarding displaying image on hover here on Stackoverflow, but couldn't find a solution for my problem.
Right now I managed to display an image in the background of the paragraph once I hover on it. See on JSFiddle.
Ideally what would I like to do achieve: once I hover over an Example1 inside of a paragraph I would like to display Image1 in the background, not below the paragraph, but centered in the background, below all of the elements. As pictured here.
Hovering on Example2 would ideally display Image2, and Example3 would display Image3.
HTML
<div id="imgbg">
<p>Portfolio:</p>
<p>I worked with:<br />
Example1, Example2, Example3, Example4, Example5
</p>
</div>
CSS
#imgbg {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
#imgbg:hover {
background-image: url('http://i.imgur.com/9bbjE1Mb.jpg');
}
Does anyone have a solution? Many thanks.

Answer 1

You can use javascript as that
function showBg() {
document.body.style.backgroundImage = "url('http://i.imgur.com/9bbjE1Mb.jpg')";
}
function hideBg() {
document.body.style.backgroundImage = null;
}
<div onmouseover="showBg()" onmouseleave="hideBg()" id="imgbg">
<p>I worked with:
<br />Example1, Example2, Example3, Example4, Example5
</p>
</div>

Answer 2

you should wrap Example1 and Example2 with span tag or div
and add css rules for these wraps.
<span id="ex1">Example1</span>, <span id="ex2">Example2</span>, Example3, Example4, Example5
and add css
#ex1, #ex2 {
display:inline-block;
height:50px;
}
#ex1:hover {
background-image:url('http://i.imgur.com/9bbjE1Mb.jpg');
}
#ex2:hover {
background-image:url('http://i.imgur.com/9bbjE1Mb.jpg');
}
Look at https://jsfiddle.net/4tubcy8e/6/

Answer 3

I hope this may help you.
#imgbg {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 265px;
}
#imgbg .Example:hover:after {
display: block;
}
#imgbg .Example:after {
content: '';
display: none;
width: 160px;
height: 160px;
background: url('http://i.imgur.com/9bbjE1Mb.jpg');
background-size: contain;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 0;
margin-top: -80px;
margin-left: 145px;
z-index: -1;
}
<div id="imgbg">
<p>Portfolio:</p>
<p>I worked with:<br />
<span class="Example">Example1</span>,
<span class="Example">Example2</span>,
<span class="Example">Example3</span>,
<span class="Example">Example4</span>,
<span class="Example">Example5</span>
</p>
</div>