Make image link appear on hover without using JavaScript - html

Question

I have a DIV that's wrapped in an anchor tag; all of the DIV is clickable, even the whitespace that doesn't contain any text (and this is desired, for my purposes).
I have another anchor tag that's absolutely positioned over this DIV with a higher z-index. This anchor tag wraps an image (a "close" icon).
This all works correctly, EXCEPT that I only want the close icon to appear on hover. As currently implemented, the close icon is always visible. I'm not sure if I'm going about this the right way. As a further wrinkle, I need to implement this without using JavaScript, since I'm running on an embedded system and I can't afford to invoke a JavaScript engine.
This only needs to work with WebKit (even more specifically, it only needs to work with Chrome).
Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction?
Here's the CSS I'm using:
.content {
border-top: 1px solid #eff1f2;
border-bottom: 1px solid #c5c5c5;
padding: 8px 11px;
border-left: 1px solid #c5c5c5;
}
div.content:hover {
background-color: #d1d6de;
}
.close {
position: absolute;
right: 100px;
top: 10px;
z-index: 0;
}
Here's my HTML:
<div>
<a href="native://action1/">
<div class="content">
<p>This is my content</p>
</div>
</a>
<a href="native://action2/">
<img class="close" src="images/close.png"/>
</a>
</div>
Here's a jsFiddle that contains my source.

Answer 1

All you need, given your current HTML, is a simple revision of your CSS:
.close {
display: none; /* Added this to hide the element */
/* other CSS */
}
​div:hover a .close { /* to make the element visible while hovering the parent div */
display: block;
}
JS Fiddle demo.
With the use of the CSS transition properties, you can also use fade in/fade out:
.close {
opacity: 0; /* to hide the element */
-webkit-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
-moz-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
-ms-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
-o-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
/* other CSS */
}
div:hover a .close {
opacity: 1; /* to reveal the element */
-webkit-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
-moz-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
-ms-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
-o-transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
transition: opacity 0.5s linear;
}
JS Fiddle demo.
It's also worth noting that, prior to HTML 5, it's invalid to wrap a block-level element inside of an inline-level, the a, element. In HTML 5, though, this seems to be valid (though I've yet to find the W3 documentation to support this).