ReCreating The Netflix Hover A Movie Functionality

Question

If you goto the netflix site and hover over a movie http://www.netflix.com/BrowseSelection

You get a nice popup box that displays the movie info in it. My guess is this is done somehow with jquery and ajax. Does anyone know where I can find a code example of this functionaliity? Basically I want a nice popup and when the user hovers over a picture I query a database for info to fill the popup with.

I still need an example that kinda shows ajax calls and how they work.I am using .net, do I create a function in the code behind that accepts a querystring and returns data from the database, then call it though the ajax get method? I dont have a good understanding how to set all of this up?

Where do I get the fancy popup look?

Also, when I hover over a picture how can I come up with a way to get an id off that picture on a hover to send to the function that is gonna get the info about that picture from the db??

"do I create a function in the code behind that accepts a querystring and returns data from the database, then call it though the ajax get method?" Actually it sounds like you do have a good understanding how to set all of this up :) That's pretty much what you need to do. — ithcy
– ithcy, Commented Mar 8, 2011 at 0:21

TheGeekYouNeed · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-08 00:15:26Z

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View the source on the site. Use a nifty tool like FireBug in FireFox to look at all the .js and .css files that go with it. The Netflix site is your code sample.

answered Mar 8, 2011 at 0:15

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