Adding Hotspot Layer

Hotspot layer adds a small area over the slider. This small area shows a tooltip when the mouse cursor moves over the point. You can use hotspot layers to add additional info related to some specific areas of the slide image or a layer on the slide. For example, you can attach info for every part of a product over the slide.

Below example shows how to create a hotspot layer. Like other layer types, you need to specify the layer by ms-layer class name and set its type by data-type="hotspot" attribute.

	<div id="masterslider" class="master-slider">
		<div class="ms-slide">
			<!-- .... -->
			<div class="ms-layer" data-type="hotspot">
				<!-- tooltip content -->
		        <h3>LOREM IPSUM DOLOR</h3>
		        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt.
		        <!-- end of tooltip content -->
			</div>
			<!-- .... -->
		</div>
		<!-- .... -->
	</div>

Layer attributes

Hotspot layer has some data attributes to control the appearance of the hotspot point and the tooltip.

• data-align – Specifies the alignment of the tooltip. Its default value is "top".
• data-width – Specifies the width of the tooltip container in pixels.
• data-transparent – Hides the hotspot point (data-transparent="true").
• data-stay-hover – Sets the tooltip stays until mouse cursor is over it (data-stay-hover="true"). This option is disabled by default.
• data-tooltip-class – Adds class name(s) to the tooltip container.

Set custom point

If you need to add a custom point as the hotspot, you can add it directly inside the hotspot layer and specify it as the hotspot point by ms-hotspot-point class name like the example below:

	<div id="masterslider" class="master-slider">
		<div class="ms-slide">
			<!-- .... -->
			<div class="ms-layer" data-type="hotspot">
				<!-- tooltip content -->
		        <h3>LOREM IPSUM DOLOR</h3>
		        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt.
		        <!-- end of tooltip content -->
		        <img src=".../path/to/custom-hotspot-point.jpg" alt="" class="ms-hotspot-point">
			</div>
			<!-- .... -->
		</div>
		<!-- .... -->
	</div>

This article only describes how to create the layer. I you need more information about layers, check out following articles:

• Positioning layers
• Animating layers
• Masking layers
• Layer parallax effect
• Linking layer