CSS image hover pushes other elements in the page? - html

Question

When the image grows in hover to 350px it pushes everything around.
This code is working except that when I hover and the picture grows it pushes the menu or what ever is around downwards.
How can I stop this?
#displaycar img
{
height: 200px;
}
#displaycar img:hover
{
height: 350px;
}
BTW I'm using twitter bootstrap and I have tried position: absolute;.
Is there any way to still increase size when hover but don't push nothing don't move nothing.

Answer 1

Set the height of #displaycar (the presumed parent div) to 200px and add overflow: visible;
#displaycar {
height: 200px;
overflow: visible;
}

Answer 2

I would use z-index on the elements. keep the values equal on the initial layout, but make it a stronger (bring to front) value when hovering
#displaycar img:hover
{
z-index:[stronger value];
height: 350px;
position :[relative, absolute, fixed];
}
note: to use z-index, you have to use one of the position values
Z-index gives priority to overlapping elements (bring to front / bring to back)
here is a bit more info on the subject

Answer 3

It's possible, but to avoid affecting surrounding content the element itself has to be removed from the flow of the document; this is easiest to achieve using position: absolute, though unfortunately this requires using a wrapping element, with position: relative (or any other non-static position value). The wrapping element has to have a width and height defined, which could be done automatically (with JavaScript, or PHP (amongst many other options)).
For example, the HTML:
<span>
<img src="http://placekitten.com/400/400/" />
</span>
<p><!-- generic dummy content, excised for brevity --></p>
And the CSS:
span {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
}
span img {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
height: 150px;
width: 150px;
/* Vendor-prefixes removed, for brevity */
transition: all 1s linear;
}
span:hover img {
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
/* Vendor-prefixes removed, for brevity */
transition: all 1s linear;
}
JS Fiddle demo.