Improved CSS Hover Images

You see a lot of hover effects on web nowadays. Images are often preloaded on page load so that the user sees the hover effects right away, but there's also another way to do it. How about using just one image and changing its state/position it with CSS?

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Improved CSS Hover Images
You see a lot of hover effects on web nowadays. When you hover your mouse cursor over a link it usually changes to something else - It doesn't matter if the link is an image or just text, there's usually some sort of hover effect in place. If it's a graphical link the hover effect is usually another image displaying the hover effect. This image is often preloaded on page load so that the user sees the effect right away, but there's also another way to do it. How about using just one image and changing its state/position it with CSS?

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