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How to show different product image when hover product card on BigCommerce

This BigCommerce tutorial will help you customize your theme to show different product image when hover mouse on product card. It works on any product cards, products grid, listing or carousel. And works on any pages like homepage, category, new products, featured products or bestselling products as well.

You can see how it works as figure below:

Demo a live BigCommerce theme which implemented this feature here:  LIVE DEMO.

Now lets follow below instruction to help you integrate product image hover feature on your own BigCommerce theme.

Instruction

Edit file templates/components/products/card.html in BigCommerce Edit Theme Files editor.

Find the code:

<img src="{{getImage image 'productgallery_size' (cdn theme_settings.default_image_product)}}" alt="{{image.alt}}" title="{{image.alt}}">

And insert the code below after the previous code:

{{#each (limit images 2)}}
{{#if @index '>' 0}}
<img src="{{getImage this 'productgallery_size' (cdn theme_settings.default_image_product)}}" alt="{{this.alt}}" title="{{this.alt}}">
{{/if}}
{{/each}}

The final code will look like this:

Next, edit the css file assets/scss/components/citadel/cards/_cards.scss. Add below code at the end of file:

.card-figure {
  a {
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
  }
}
.card-image ~ .card-image {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  transition: opacity 0.5s ease;
}
.card:hover,
.card:focus,
.card:active {
  .card-image ~ .card-image {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

Save, refresh your front pages and hover on a product grid card to see how it works.

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14th Apr 2017 papathemes

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