The first popeye-box uses the standard options: it floats to the left and opens to the right, its navigation and caption show on mouseover. The caption displays the html code inside the <span class="ppy-extcaption">
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By placing the navigation inside the stage area (where the image is displayed), we can get it to hover above the image.
The second popeye-box has the following user-defined options: direction: 'left'
- open to the left. caption: false
- do not display captions (even though the images have alt tags with text). navigation: 'permanent'
- the navigation is always visible.
The navigation stays fixed to the right of the image. Absolute poisitioning plays a key role in displaying the navigation wherever you want - to the left, right, below or above the image.