# Direction-Aware Hover

> Tiles whose caption, or a second photo, slides in from the edge the pointer comes from and leaves by the edge it goes out. The keyboard opens it from the bottom; on touch the caption sits under the photo.

Image effects · image, hover, direction, portfolio, product, grid · HTML, CSS, vanilla JS · no dependencies · updated 2026-11-05
Demo: https://kodza.dev/components/direction-aware-hover/
Source on GitHub: https://github.com/kodza-dev/kodza/tree/main/components/direction-aware-hover

## Files

The code below, served as files: byte for byte what the Kodza site copies (the CSS includes its theme guard).

- [`kodza-direction-aware-hover.css`](https://kodza.dev/registry/direction-aware-hover/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css) · 17.3 KB
- [`kodza-direction-aware-hover.js`](https://kodza.dev/registry/direction-aware-hover/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js) · 7.3 KB
- [`kodza-direction-aware-hover.html`](https://kodza.dev/registry/direction-aware-hover/kodza-direction-aware-hover.html) · 6.2 KB · the markup, to adapt and paste into your page

**Can you run shell commands? Download the CSS and the JS, don't retype them.** Retyping costs thousands of tokens and can drop or change lines of the CSS. Put the files where your stack expects them (Use it says where: change the `-o` paths):

```bash
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css https://kodza.dev/registry/direction-aware-hover/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js https://kodza.dev/registry/direction-aware-hover/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js
```

Then load the files from your page as Use it shows, instead of pasting the content. The HTML is the part you adapt (text, links, modifiers): paste it from the Code section. Copy the CSS and the JS from the Code section only if you can't run commands, exactly as they are. (Windows PowerShell: `curl.exe`.)

**Its images are free to use in what you ship** (Kodza house images, Kodza License). The HTML loads them from kodza.dev, whose addresses can change: copy them into the project and point each `src` to the copy (a Claude artifact embeds them instead, as Use it says).

```bash
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-overflow-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-overflow-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-steps-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-steps-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-float-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-float-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-arch-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-arch-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-arch-dark-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-arch-dark-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-columns-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-columns-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-columns-dark-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-columns-dark-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-block-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-block-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-block-dark-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-block-dark-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-table-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-table-1400.webp
curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o kodza/media/kz-table-dark-1400.webp https://kodza.dev/media/kz-table-dark-1400.webp
```

## API

- Root: `.kodza-direction-hover`
- Variables (set them on the root element itself: it declares its own defaults):
  - `--kz-direction-hover-columns: 4`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-columns-narrow: 2` — when the grid is narrower than 640px
  - `--kz-direction-hover-ratio: 4 / 5`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-gap: 28px 16px`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-radius: calc(12px * var(--kz-radius-scale, 1))`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-duration: 0.5s`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-ease: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-ink: #0a0a0a`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-muted: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.62)`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-placeholder: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.06)` — under a photo while it loads
  - `--kz-direction-hover-veil: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.64)`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-paper: #ffffff`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-faint: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.86)`
  - `--kz-direction-hover-mono: var(--kz-font-mono, "Geist Mono", ui-monospace, "SF Mono", Menlo, monospace)`
- Attributes:
  - `data-edge` (e.g. `top`, `right`, `left`)
- Lifecycle: `kodza:init` / `kodza:destroy` on `document`, with `{ detail: { root } }` to target a container.

## Keyboard

What each key does, by where the focus is. Keep it working when you adapt the HTML: same elements, same classes.

- On a tile (focus in `.kodza-direction-hover__link`):
  - `Tab`: Next tile: its caption or second photo rises from the bottom

## Images

The shape of each image slot, measured in the demo at 1440 × 900 (desktop) and 390 × 844 (mobile). Where the shape is fixed, the frame crops the image to it: export in that shape, keep the subject near the centre, at twice the widest size shown (sharp on retina screens).

| Slot | Desktop | Mobile | Widest shown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `.kodza-direction-hover__image` | mixed (4:3, 4:5) | mixed (4:3, 4:5) | 342 px |
| `.kodza-direction-hover__photo` | 4:5 | 4:5 | 236 px |

## Dark mode

The values Kodza uses on a dark background (`#0a0a0a`). For a page that follows the system theme, add them after the component's CSS:

```css
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  .kodza-direction-hover {
    --kz-direction-hover-ink: #f2f2f0;
    --kz-direction-hover-muted: rgba(242, 242, 240, 0.64);
    --kz-direction-hover-placeholder: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06);
  }
}
```

A site with its own theme switch puts the same rules under its dark selector instead (`[data-theme="dark"] .kodza-direction-hover { … }`); a single dark section, under that section's class.

Its images have dark versions next to them (`kz-overflow-1400.webp` → `kz-overflow-dark-1400.webp`). To swap them on a dark page: `<picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="…-dark-….webp"><img …></picture>`.

## Use it

### Plain HTML page

- CSS: `kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css` next to the page (the Files commands as they are), linked in `<head>`: `<link rel="stylesheet" href="kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css">`. Without a shell, paste it in a `<style>` in `<head>` instead. It only touches `kodza-` classes.
- HTML: where the component goes. Paste it as many times as you need: instances never interfere.
- JS: `kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js`, loaded with `<script src="kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js" defer></script>` in `<head>`. Without a shell, paste it in a `<script>` before `</body>` (or in `<head>`: it waits for the page). One copy per page, whatever the number of instances.
- Restyle with the `--kz-…` variables, set on the component's root element itself (the root declares its own defaults, so a value on an ancestor is ignored), and with the modifiers / attributes listed under API.
- Font: it takes the page's own. A site with its own type sets it once for every Kodza component, on `:root`, never by editing the CSS (unset, nothing changes): `--kz-font-display`, the display face (headings, big numbers, wordmarks); `--kz-font-display-weight`, its weight; `--kz-font-display-scale`, a multiplier on its sizes (1 by default); `--kz-font-display-tracking`, its letter-spacing; `--kz-font-display-case`, its case (`uppercase`…); `--kz-font-label`, the face of the small labels (meta, captions, counters, hints, footer links, button labels); `--kz-font-label-size`, their size, one for all of them (`11px`…); `--kz-font-label-weight`, their weight; `--kz-font-label-tracking`, their letter-spacing; `--kz-font-label-case`, their case (`uppercase`…; code and units keep theirs); `--kz-font-label-leading`, their line-height (`1.45`…; buttons, pills and keys keep their box); `--kz-font-mono`, the monospace face (code, labels, counters). The Kodza look is Geist: `<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Geist:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Geist+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap">`.
- Corners: a site with its own shapes sets them once for every Kodza component, on `:root`, never by editing the CSS (unset, nothing changes): `--kz-radius-scale` multiplies every corner (`0` square, `0.5` softer, `1` Kodza).
- Motion: a site sets its pace once for every Kodza component, on `:root`, never by editing the CSS or the JS: `--kz-motion-scale` multiplies every duration (`0.5` twice as fast, `2` twice as slow, `0` no motion at all, loops stopped, like reduced motion). Unset, nothing changes.
- Content added later (AJAX navigation, a SPA route, a builder preview): start it with `document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root: container } }))`; before removing it, the same call with `'kodza:destroy'` stops it and puts the original markup back.

### Claude artifact (claude.ai)

- Paste the CSS in a `<style>` and the JS in a `<script>` at the end, in the artifact itself: it loads stylesheets only from Google Fonts and scripts only from a few CDNs, so no `<link>` or `<script src>` to Kodza.
- Writing the artifact file with a shell? Insert the downloaded files (Files) with a command instead of retyping them: a line `KODZA-CSS` alone inside the `<style>`, `KODZA-JS` inside the `<script>`, then `sed -e '/^KODZA-CSS$/{r kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css' -e 'd' -e '}' -e '/^KODZA-JS$/{r kodza/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js' -e 'd' -e '}' page.html > artifact.html`.
- Font: load Geist from Google Fonts (allowed): `<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Geist:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Geist+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap">`. A site with its own type sets it once for every Kodza component, on `:root`, never by editing the CSS (unset, nothing changes): `--kz-font-display`, the display face (headings, big numbers, wordmarks); `--kz-font-display-weight`, its weight; `--kz-font-display-scale`, a multiplier on its sizes (1 by default); `--kz-font-display-tracking`, its letter-spacing; `--kz-font-display-case`, its case (`uppercase`…); `--kz-font-label`, the face of the small labels (meta, captions, counters, hints, footer links, button labels); `--kz-font-label-size`, their size, one for all of them (`11px`…); `--kz-font-label-weight`, their weight; `--kz-font-label-tracking`, their letter-spacing; `--kz-font-label-case`, their case (`uppercase`…; code and units keep theirs); `--kz-font-label-leading`, their line-height (`1.45`…; buttons, pills and keys keep their box); `--kz-font-mono`, the monospace face (code, labels, counters).
- Corners: a site with its own shapes sets them once for every Kodza component, on `:root`, never by editing the CSS (unset, nothing changes): `--kz-radius-scale` multiplies every corner (`0` square, `0.5` softer, `1` Kodza).
- Motion: a site sets its pace once for every Kodza component, on `:root`, never by editing the CSS or the JS: `--kz-motion-scale` multiplies every duration (`0.5` twice as fast, `2` twice as slow, `0` no motion at all, loops stopped, like reduced motion). Unset, nothing changes.
- Images: the artifact blocks every other host, `kodza.dev` included, without an error. Embed each one as a `data:` URI, with a command if you can run one (`curl -s <url> | base64`; the 1400 px files weigh 10 to 30 KB), never by typing base64 out. If you can't run commands, keep the `<img>` with its `width` and `height`, and tell the user the picture stays blank inside the artifact.
- Dark mode: the viewer sets `data-theme="dark"` or `"light"` on `<html>`, or nothing when it follows the system. Write the Dark mode rules twice: inside `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` with `:root:not([data-theme="light"])` in front of each selector, and with `:root[data-theme="dark"]` in front of each selector.

### WordPress

- HTML: a **Custom HTML** block (or a pattern / template part). WordPress keeps this markup as it is only for users allowed to post unfiltered HTML (Administrators; Super Admins on multisite): for anyone else it strips tags such as `<svg>`, `<input>` or `<dialog>`, so add it from the theme (a pattern or template part) instead.
- CSS and JS: the downloaded files go in the theme, under `wp-content/themes/<your-theme>/kodza/` (the child theme if there is one), enqueued from its functions.php (or a code-snippets plugin):
  ```php
  add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', function () {
    $dir = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/kodza/';
    $uri = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/kodza/';
    wp_enqueue_style('kodza-direction-aware-hover', $uri . 'kodza-direction-aware-hover.css', [], filemtime($dir . 'kodza-direction-aware-hover.css'));
    wp_enqueue_script('kodza-direction-aware-hover', $uri . 'kodza-direction-aware-hover.js', [], filemtime($dir . 'kodza-direction-aware-hover.js'), true);
  });
  ```
  Scoped to `kodza-` classes, the CSS never touches the theme. One copy of the JS, whatever the number of blocks.
- No access to the theme files? The CSS can also go, as it is, in **Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS** (classic theme) or **Styles → Additional CSS** in the Site Editor (block theme).
- Theme with AJAX page transitions: fire `kodza:init` on the new content after each swap (and `kodza:destroy` on the old one).
- Performance plugin (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, Perfmatters…) with **Delay JavaScript execution** turned on: add `kodza` to the scripts it must not delay. Otherwise the component waits for the visitor's first scroll, tap or mouse move, and that first click can be lost.
- Colours: it takes the colour of the text around it (or keeps its own monochrome): nothing to point at the theme.
- WordPress turns straight quotes and `--` into typographic ones in the text of a Custom HTML block (not inside `<code>` or `<pre>`).

#### With Elementor

- HTML: an **HTML** widget (Elementor shows it to administrators only). It keeps the code exactly as pasted, straight quotes included.
- CSS and JS: as above. Elementor's Site Settings → Theme Style styles every button, field, link and image of the page, components included; the theme guard at the end of the CSS keeps the component's buttons, fields and link colours as they are.
- The Elementor editor redraws each widget after the page has loaded: without the script below, the component stays still in the editor preview (the published page works). Add it once per site, in the footer like the component's script (`kodza/elementor-editor.js`, or a code-snippets plugin):

```js
// Kodza in the Elementor editor: the editor redraws each HTML widget after the page has loaded.
// Start Kodza in what it draws, stop it in what it replaces or removes. Once per site.
window.addEventListener('elementor/frontend/init', () => {
  if (!elementorFrontend.isEditMode()) return;
  class KodzaWidget extends elementorModules.frontend.handlers.Base {
    onInit() {
      super.onInit();
      this.kodza = [...this.$element[0].children];
      document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root: this.$element[0] } }));
    }
    onDestroy() {
      super.onDestroy();
      this.kodza.forEach((root) => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:destroy', { detail: { root } })));
    }
  }
  elementorFrontend.elementsHandler.attachHandler('html', KodzaWidget);
});
```

- No child theme: everything can go in the HTML widget instead, `<style>` with the CSS, the HTML, then `<script>` with the JS. It works on the page and in the editor without the script above.

### Shopify

- Files: `assets/kodza-direction-aware-hover.css` and `assets/kodza-direction-aware-hover.js` (the Files commands with `-o assets/…`).
- In the section: `{{ 'kodza-direction-aware-hover.css' | asset_url | stylesheet_tag }}` and `<script src="{{ 'kodza-direction-aware-hover.js' | asset_url }}" defer></script>`, then the HTML.
- The theme editor re-renders sections: restart them with
  `document.addEventListener('shopify:section:load', (e) => document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root: e.target } })));`
  and the same with `shopify:section:unload` → `kodza:destroy`.

### React / Next.js

- Files, side by side (e.g. in `components/kodza/`): `DirectionAwareHover.tsx` (below), the CSS block under Code saved as `direction-aware-hover.css` and the JS block as `direction-aware-hover.js`, both as they are. The HTML block is already inside the component: skip it.
- Use it: `import { DirectionAwareHover } from '@/components/kodza/DirectionAwareHover';` then `<DirectionAwareHover />`. Props: `vars` (the `--kz-…` variables listed under API, e.g. `vars={{ '--kz-direction-hover-columns': … }}`), `className`, `style` and the other props of its `<div>` (`onClick`, `aria-…`).
- Next.js App Router: it is a Client Component already (`'use client'`). Pages Router: Next.js takes global CSS only in `pages/_app`, so move the `import './direction-aware-hover.css'` line there.
- Safe under StrictMode, client-side navigation and prop changes: when a prop changes, the `key` gives React a fresh element, `kodza:destroy` stops the script on the old one and `kodza:init` starts it on the new one.
- Built from your data (tabs, rows, options)? Add what the markup is made of to the `key`, as plain values (ids, text, numbers). What the visitor changes (the open tab, the sort, what they type) is the script's: follow it with `onClick` or `onInput` on the root, and change it from your code as a visitor would (click the tab; set the field's value, then dispatch a bubbling `input` event). Fields stay uncontrolled (`defaultValue`, `name`).

```tsx
'use client';
// Kodza — Direction-Aware Hover, for React. From https://kodza.dev/components/direction-aware-hover/
// Kodza License: free to use, client work included. Not to resell or redistribute, ported or not: https://kodza.dev/docs/#print-license
// Next to this file: direction-aware-hover.css and direction-aware-hover.js, the component's CSS and JS from Kodza, as they are.
// Yours to edit: the markup is plain JSX below.
// The script changes this markup once React has rendered it (it adds layers, splits text, moves
// nodes), so React must not patch it afterwards. When a prop changes, the key gives React a fresh
// element: kodza:destroy stops the script on the old one, kodza:init starts it on the new one.
// data-kodza-manual keeps the script from starting it on its own: the effect below does, once
// React has hydrated the markup (on a page that streams in, the script can load first).
// Built from your data (tabs, rows, options)? Put what the markup is made of in the key, as plain
// values (ids, text, numbers): a change starts the script again on fresh markup. What the visitor
// changes (the open tab, the sort, what they type) is the script's: keep it out of the key, follow
// it with onClick or onInput on the root, and change it from your code as a visitor would (click
// the tab; set the field's value, then dispatch a bubbling input event).
import { useRef, useEffect, type ComponentPropsWithoutRef, type ComponentRef, type CSSProperties } from 'react';
import './direction-aware-hover.css';

export type DirectionAwareHoverProps = Omit<ComponentPropsWithoutRef<'div'>, "children" | "vars"> & {
  /** Settings, as CSS variables on the root */
  vars?: {
    /** default: 4 */
    "--kz-direction-hover-columns"?: string | number;
    /** when the grid is narrower than 640px — default: 2 */
    "--kz-direction-hover-columns-narrow"?: string | number;
    /** default: 4 / 5 */
    "--kz-direction-hover-ratio"?: string | number;
    /** default: 28px 16px */
    "--kz-direction-hover-gap"?: string | number;
    /** default: calc(12px * var(--kz-radius-scale, 1)) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-radius"?: string | number;
    /** default: 0.5s */
    "--kz-direction-hover-duration"?: string | number;
    /** default: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-ease"?: string | number;
    /** default: #0a0a0a */
    "--kz-direction-hover-ink"?: string | number;
    /** default: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.62) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-muted"?: string | number;
    /** under a photo while it loads — default: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.06) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-placeholder"?: string | number;
    /** default: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.64) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-veil"?: string | number;
    /** default: #ffffff */
    "--kz-direction-hover-paper"?: string | number;
    /** default: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.86) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-faint"?: string | number;
    /** default: var(--kz-font-mono, "Geist Mono", ui-monospace, "SF Mono", Menlo, monospace) */
    "--kz-direction-hover-mono"?: string | number;
  };
  className?: string;
};

export function DirectionAwareHover({ vars, className, style, ...rest }: DirectionAwareHoverProps) {
  const ref = useRef<ComponentRef<'div'>>(null);
  const classes = ["kodza-direction-hover", className].filter(Boolean).join(' ');
  // Everything the markup is made of: when it changes, React gets a fresh element (see the top)
  const key = JSON.stringify([classes, vars, style, rest]);

  // Starts the script on this element once React has rendered it, stops it when it goes
  useEffect(() => {
    const root = ref.current;
    let live = true;
    // @ts-ignore: a plain script, no types to find
    import('./direction-aware-hover.js').then(() => {
      if (live) document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:init', { detail: { root } }));
    });
    return () => {
      live = false;
      document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('kodza:destroy', { detail: { root } }));
    };
  }, [key]);

  return (
    <div key={key} {...rest} className={classes} data-kodza-manual style={{ "--kz-direction-hover-ratio": "4 / 3", "--kz-direction-hover-columns": "3", "--kz-direction-hover-columns-narrow": "1", ...vars, ...style } as CSSProperties} ref={ref}>
      <ul className="kodza-direction-hover__grid">
        <li className="kodza-direction-hover__item">
          <a className="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
            <span className="kodza-direction-hover__media">
              <img className="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-overflow-1400.webp" width="1400" height="1400" alt="A two-storey concrete house, its upper floor cantilevered over the ground" loading="lazy" />
            </span>
            {' '}
            <span className="kodza-direction-hover__caption">
              <span className="kodza-direction-hover__top">
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__meta">House · 2025</span>
                <svg className="kodza-direction-hover__arrow" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true">
                  <path d="M4.5 11.5l7-7M5.5 4.5h6v6" />
                </svg>
              </span>
              {' '}
              <span className="kodza-direction-hover__words">
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__title">Falaise House</span>
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__place">Étretat</span>
              </span>
            </span>
          </a>
        </li>
        <li className="kodza-direction-hover__item">
          <a className="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
            <span className="kodza-direction-hover__media">
              <img className="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-steps-1400.webp" width="1400" height="933" alt="Wide concrete steps climbing a slope, each one casting a sharp shadow" loading="lazy" />
            </span>
            {' '}
            <span className="kodza-direction-hover__caption">
              <span className="kodza-direction-hover__top">
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__meta">Public space · 2024</span>
                <svg className="kodza-direction-hover__arrow" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true">
                  <path d="M4.5 11.5l7-7M5.5 4.5h6v6" />
                </svg>
              </span>
              {' '}
              <span className="kodza-direction-hover__words">
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__title">The Steps</span>
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__place">Le Havre</span>
              </span>
            </span>
          </a>
        </li>
        <li className="kodza-direction-hover__item">
          <a className="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
            <span className="kodza-direction-hover__media">
              <img className="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-float-1400.webp" width="1400" height="933" alt="A flat concrete pavilion that seems to float above a pool of still water" loading="lazy" />
            </span>
            {' '}
            <span className="kodza-direction-hover__caption">
              <span className="kodza-direction-hover__top">
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__meta">Pavilion · 2024</span>
                <svg className="kodza-direction-hover__arrow" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true">
                  <path d="M4.5 11.5l7-7M5.5 4.5h6v6" />
                </svg>
              </span>
              {' '}
              <span className="kodza-direction-hover__words">
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__title">Low Water</span>
                <span className="kodza-direction-hover__place">Honfleur</span>
              </span>
            </span>
          </a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  );
}
```

## Code

```html
<div class="kodza-direction-hover" style="--kz-direction-hover-ratio: 4 / 3; --kz-direction-hover-columns: 3; --kz-direction-hover-columns-narrow: 1">
  <ul class="kodza-direction-hover__grid">
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-overflow-1400.webp" width="1400" height="1400" alt="A two-storey concrete house, its upper floor cantilevered over the ground" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__caption">
          <span class="kodza-direction-hover__top"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__meta">House · 2025</span><svg class="kodza-direction-hover__arrow" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M4.5 11.5l7-7M5.5 4.5h6v6" /></svg></span>
          <span class="kodza-direction-hover__words"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__title">Falaise House</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__place">Étretat</span></span>
        </span>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-steps-1400.webp" width="1400" height="933" alt="Wide concrete steps climbing a slope, each one casting a sharp shadow" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__caption">
          <span class="kodza-direction-hover__top"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__meta">Public space · 2024</span><svg class="kodza-direction-hover__arrow" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M4.5 11.5l7-7M5.5 4.5h6v6" /></svg></span>
          <span class="kodza-direction-hover__words"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__title">The Steps</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__place">Le Havre</span></span>
        </span>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-float-1400.webp" width="1400" height="933" alt="A flat concrete pavilion that seems to float above a pool of still water" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__caption">
          <span class="kodza-direction-hover__top"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__meta">Pavilion · 2024</span><svg class="kodza-direction-hover__arrow" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M4.5 11.5l7-7M5.5 4.5h6v6" /></svg></span>
          <span class="kodza-direction-hover__words"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__title">Low Water</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__place">Honfleur</span></span>
        </span>
      </a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

<div class="kodza-direction-hover">
  <ul class="kodza-direction-hover__grid">
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-arch-1400.webp" width="1400" height="1400" alt="Print of a concrete wall with a round-topped opening" loading="lazy">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__photo" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-arch-dark-1400.webp" width="1400" height="1400" alt="" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__info"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__name">Arch</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__price">€48</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__note">Day and night print, 40&nbsp;×&nbsp;50&nbsp;cm</span></span>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-columns-1400.webp" width="1120" height="1400" alt="Print of a row of square concrete pillars under a flat roof" loading="lazy">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__photo" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-columns-dark-1400.webp" width="1120" height="1400" alt="" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__info"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__name">Columns</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__price">€48</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__note">Day and night print, 40&nbsp;×&nbsp;50&nbsp;cm</span></span>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-block-1400.webp" width="1120" height="1400" alt="Print of a tall concrete slab standing alone, its long shadow stretching forward" loading="lazy">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__photo" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-block-dark-1400.webp" width="1120" height="1400" alt="" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__info"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__name">Block</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__price">€36</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__note">Day and night print, 30&nbsp;×&nbsp;40&nbsp;cm</span></span>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li class="kodza-direction-hover__item">
      <a class="kodza-direction-hover__link" href="#">
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__media">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__image" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-table-1400.webp" width="1400" height="1050" alt="Print of a white table set with two glasses, facing a misty sea" loading="lazy">
          <img class="kodza-direction-hover__photo" src="https://kodza.dev/media/kz-table-dark-1400.webp" width="1400" height="1050" alt="" loading="lazy">
        </span>
        <span class="kodza-direction-hover__info"><span class="kodza-direction-hover__name">Table</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__price">€42</span><span class="kodza-direction-hover__note">Day and night print, 40&nbsp;×&nbsp;50&nbsp;cm</span></span>
      </a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>
```

```css
/* Kodza License: free to use, client work included. Not to resell or redistribute, ported or not: https://kodza.dev/docs/#print-license */
/* Kodza — Direction-Aware Hover
   A grid of tiles where the caption, or a second photo, comes in from the side the pointer
   comes from and leaves by the side it goes out: the small script reads the side, a clip-path
   does the rest. The keyboard opens it from the bottom; on a touch screen the caption sits under
   the photo and nothing sticks. Everything is tuned with the --kz-direction-hover-* variables. */
.kodza-direction-hover {
  --kz-direction-hover-columns: 4;
  --kz-direction-hover-columns-narrow: 2; /* when the grid is narrower than 640px */
  --kz-direction-hover-ratio: 4 / 5;
  --kz-direction-hover-gap: 28px 16px;
  --kz-direction-hover-radius: calc(12px * var(--kz-radius-scale, 1));
  --kz-direction-hover-duration: 0.5s;
  --kz-direction-hover-ease: cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1);
  --kz-direction-hover-ink: #0a0a0a;
  --kz-direction-hover-muted: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.62);
  --kz-direction-hover-placeholder: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.06); /* under a photo while it loads */
  /* The caption laid over the photo */
  --kz-direction-hover-veil: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.64);
  --kz-direction-hover-paper: #ffffff;
  --kz-direction-hover-faint: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.86);
  --kz-direction-hover-mono: var(--kz-font-mono, "Geist Mono", ui-monospace, "SF Mono", Menlo, monospace);

  container: kodza-direction-hover / inline-size;
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  color: var(--kz-direction-hover-ink);
}

.kodza-direction-hover__grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(var(--kz-direction-hover-columns), minmax(0, 1fr));
  gap: var(--kz-direction-hover-gap);
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

@container kodza-direction-hover (max-width: 640px) {
  .kodza-direction-hover__grid {
    grid-template-columns: repeat(var(--kz-direction-hover-columns-narrow), minmax(0, 1fr));
  }

  /* A narrow column: the place goes under the title instead of squeezing it onto two lines */
  .kodza-direction-hover__words {
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: flex-start;
    gap: 2px;
  }
}

.kodza-direction-hover__item {
  min-width: 0;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__link {
  /* How far the words and the second photo travel in from the edge (set by data-edge, below) */
  --kz-direction-hover-shift: 0 14px;
  --kz-direction-hover-drift: 0 8%;

  position: relative;
  display: block;
  border-radius: var(--kz-direction-hover-radius);
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
  -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__link:focus-visible {
  outline: 2px solid currentColor;
  outline-offset: 4px;
}

/* The photo: a real image, cropped by its frame, never stretched */
.kodza-direction-hover__media {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  aspect-ratio: var(--kz-direction-hover-ratio);
  overflow: clip;
  border-radius: var(--kz-direction-hover-radius);
  background: var(--kz-direction-hover-placeholder);
}

.kodza-direction-hover__image,
.kodza-direction-hover__photo {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  max-width: none;
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  object-fit: cover;
}

/* The second photo only shows under a pointer: on a touch screen it is never even loaded */
.kodza-direction-hover__photo {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  display: none;
}

/* The caption, under the photo on a touch screen: title and place, then the meta */
.kodza-direction-hover__caption {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column-reverse;
  gap: 4px;
  margin-top: 12px;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__top,
.kodza-direction-hover__words {
  display: flex;
  align-items: baseline;
  justify-content: space-between;
  gap: 12px;
  min-width: 0;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__meta {
  font-family: var(--kz-font-label, var(--kz-direction-hover-mono));
  font-size: var(--kz-font-label-size, 11.5px);
  font-weight: var(--kz-font-label-weight, 500);
  letter-spacing: var(--kz-font-label-tracking, 0.04em);
  text-transform: var(--kz-font-label-case, uppercase);
  line-height: var(--kz-font-label-leading, 16px);
  color: var(--kz-direction-hover-muted);
}

.kodza-direction-hover__arrow {
  display: none;
  flex: none;
  width: 16px;
  height: 16px;
  fill: none;
  stroke: currentColor;
  stroke-width: 1.6;
  stroke-linecap: round;
  stroke-linejoin: round;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__title {
  min-width: 0;
  font-family: var(--kz-font-display, inherit);
  font-size: calc(17px * var(--kz-font-display-scale, 1));
  font-weight: var(--kz-font-display-weight, 500);
  letter-spacing: var(--kz-font-display-tracking, -0.02em);
  text-transform: var(--kz-font-display-case, none);
  line-height: 1.2;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__place {
  flex: none;
  font-size: 13.5px;
  line-height: 1.3;
  color: var(--kz-direction-hover-muted);
}

/* The product: name and price, then a line about it */
.kodza-direction-hover__info {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) auto;
  gap: 2px 12px;
  margin-top: 12px;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__name,
.kodza-direction-hover__price {
  font-size: 15px;
  font-weight: 500;
  line-height: 1.35;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__price {
  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__note {
  grid-column: 1 / -1;
  font-size: 13.5px;
  line-height: 1.4;
  color: var(--kz-direction-hover-muted);
}

/* With a pointer: the caption covers the photo, and both covers wait, folded on an edge */
@media (hover: hover) {
  .kodza-direction-hover__caption {
    position: absolute;
    inset: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    flex-direction: column;
    justify-content: space-between;
    gap: 0;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 16px 18px 17px;
    border-radius: var(--kz-direction-hover-radius);
    background: var(--kz-direction-hover-veil);
    color: var(--kz-direction-hover-paper);
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__caption .kodza-direction-hover__meta,
  .kodza-direction-hover__caption .kodza-direction-hover__place {
    color: var(--kz-direction-hover-faint);
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__caption .kodza-direction-hover__words {
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: flex-start;
    gap: 3px;
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__caption .kodza-direction-hover__title {
    font-size: calc(20px * var(--kz-font-display-scale, 1));
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__arrow {
    display: block;
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    display: block;
  }

  /* Folded on the bottom edge by default; the script folds it on the side the pointer uses */
  .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    clip-path: inset(100% 0 0 0);
    transition:
      clip-path calc(var(--kz-direction-hover-duration) * var(--kz-motion-scale, 1)) var(--kz-direction-hover-ease),
      translate calc(var(--kz-direction-hover-duration) * var(--kz-motion-scale, 1)) var(--kz-direction-hover-ease);
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="top"] {
    --kz-direction-hover-shift: 0 -14px;
    --kz-direction-hover-drift: 0 -8%;
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="top"] .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="top"] .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    clip-path: inset(0 0 100% 0);
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="right"] {
    --kz-direction-hover-shift: 14px 0;
    --kz-direction-hover-drift: 8% 0;
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="right"] .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="right"] .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    clip-path: inset(0 0 0 100%);
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="left"] {
    --kz-direction-hover-shift: -14px 0;
    --kz-direction-hover-drift: -8% 0;
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="left"] .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link[data-edge="left"] .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    clip-path: inset(0 100% 0 0);
  }

  /* The words and the second photo come in from that edge too, a little behind the cover */
  .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    translate: var(--kz-direction-hover-drift);
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__top,
  .kodza-direction-hover__words {
    translate: var(--kz-direction-hover-shift);
    transition: translate calc(var(--kz-direction-hover-duration) * var(--kz-motion-scale, 1)) var(--kz-direction-hover-ease);
  }

  /* Open: under the pointer or the keyboard focus (and on hover alone, without the script) */
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-open .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-open .kodza-direction-hover__photo,
  .kodza-direction-hover:not(.is-ready) .kodza-direction-hover__link:is(:hover, :focus-visible) .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover:not(.is-ready) .kodza-direction-hover__link:is(:hover, :focus-visible) .kodza-direction-hover__photo {
    clip-path: inset(0);
    translate: none;
  }

  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-open .kodza-direction-hover__top,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-open .kodza-direction-hover__words,
  .kodza-direction-hover:not(.is-ready) .kodza-direction-hover__link:is(:hover, :focus-visible) .kodza-direction-hover__top,
  .kodza-direction-hover:not(.is-ready) .kodza-direction-hover__link:is(:hover, :focus-visible) .kodza-direction-hover__words {
    translate: none;
  }

  /* Folded on a new edge in one go: it is hidden either way */
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-placing .kodza-direction-hover__caption,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-placing .kodza-direction-hover__photo,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-placing .kodza-direction-hover__top,
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-placing .kodza-direction-hover__words {
    transition: none;
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .kodza-direction-hover *,
  .kodza-direction-hover *::before,
  .kodza-direction-hover *::after {
    transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
  }
}

/* kodza-guard 6821fab8e2f4 — generated by Kodza, do not edit.
   Theme guard: keeps a site's own CSS (WordPress themes, Bootstrap, CSS resets…) off this
   component. :not(#_) is always true and weighs as much as an id, so these lines win over
   theme rules made of classes and tags. Customise the component through its --kz-* variables. */

/* What the browser gives, where the component sets it only in some states: at the lowest weight, so its own rules below put it back */

:where(.kodza-direction-hover__grid):not(#_),
:where(.kodza-direction-hover__item):not(#_),
:where(.kodza-direction-hover__image):not(#_),
:where(.kodza-direction-hover__arrow):not(#_) {
  transition-duration: revert;
}

:where(.kodza-direction-hover__link):not(#_) {
  outline: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  transition-duration: revert;
}

:where(.kodza-direction-hover__photo):not(#_) {
  transition: revert;
}

/* What the browser gives, on everything the component leaves to it */

.kodza-direction-hover:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__media:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__top:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__meta:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__words:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__title:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__place:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__info:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__name:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__price:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__note:not(#_) {
  box-sizing: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__grid:not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  border-radius: revert;
  outline: revert;
  text-decoration: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  position: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-width: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  color: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
  transition-property: revert;
  transition-timing-function: revert;
  transition-delay: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__item:not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  border-radius: revert;
  outline: revert;
  text-decoration: revert;
  list-style: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  position: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-width: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  color: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
  transition-property: revert;
  transition-timing-function: revert;
  transition-delay: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__link:not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  margin: revert;
  padding: revert;
  list-style: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-width: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
  transition-property: revert;
  transition-timing-function: revert;
  transition-delay: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__image:not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  padding: revert;
  border-radius: revert;
  outline: revert;
  text-decoration: revert;
  list-style: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  position: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  color: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
  transition-property: revert;
  transition-timing-function: revert;
  transition-delay: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__arrow:not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  margin: revert;
  padding: revert;
  border-radius: revert;
  outline: revert;
  text-decoration: revert;
  list-style: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  position: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-width: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  color: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
  transition-property: revert;
  transition-timing-function: revert;
  transition-delay: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__photo:not(#_) {
  border: revert;
  padding: revert;
  border-radius: revert;
  outline: revert;
  text-decoration: revert;
  list-style: revert;
  box-sizing: revert;
  float: revert;
  background-color: revert;
  background-image: revert;
  box-shadow: revert;
  outline-offset: revert;
  appearance: revert;
  max-height: revert;
  color: revert;
  font-family: revert;
  font-size: revert;
  font-weight: revert;
  font-style: revert;
  line-height: revert;
  letter-spacing: revert;
  text-transform: revert;
  text-underline-offset: revert;
  text-align: revert;
  text-indent: revert;
  text-shadow: revert;
  vertical-align: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__item:not(#_):where(:not([hidden])) {
  display: revert;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__item:not(#_):where([hidden]) {
  display: none;
}

/* The component's own rules, one step stronger: real buttons and fields, what it sets on tags themes style (links, lists, headings, images…), and the root width (a theme may narrow it, never widen it) */

.kodza-direction-hover__grid:not(#_) {
  display: grid;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__item:not(#_) {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__link:not(#_) {
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  border-radius: var(--kz-direction-hover-radius);
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__link:focus-visible:not(#_) {
  outline: 2px solid currentColor;
  outline-offset: 4px;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__image:not(#_),
.kodza-direction-hover__photo:not(#_) {
  display: block;
  max-width: none;
  margin: 0;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__photo:not(#_) {
  position: absolute;
  display: none;
}

.kodza-direction-hover__arrow:not(#_) {
  display: none;
}

@media (hover: hover) {
  .kodza-direction-hover__arrow:not(#_) {
    display: block;
  }
}

@media (hover: hover) {
  .kodza-direction-hover__photo:not(#_) {
    display: block;
  }
}

@media (hover: hover) {
  .kodza-direction-hover__photo:not(#_) {
    transition: clip-path calc(var(--kz-direction-hover-duration) * var(--kz-motion-scale, 1)) var(--kz-direction-hover-ease),
        translate calc(var(--kz-direction-hover-duration) * var(--kz-motion-scale, 1)) var(--kz-direction-hover-ease);
  }
}

@media (hover: hover) {
  .kodza-direction-hover__link.is-placing .kodza-direction-hover__photo:not(#_) {
    transition: none;
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .kodza-direction-hover *:where(ul, li, a, img, svg):not(#_) {
    transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
  }
}
```

```js
// Kodza License: free to use, client work included. Not to resell or redistribute, ported or not: https://kodza.dev/docs/#print-license
// Kodza — Direction-Aware Hover
// Reads the side of a tile the pointer comes in by, and the side it leaves by, and writes it on
// the tile (data-edge): the CSS uncovers the caption or the second photo from that edge, then
// folds it away toward the edge the pointer goes out. The keyboard focus opens it from the
// bottom. A finger does nothing here: the caption already sits under the photo.
// Everything else (timing, colours, sizes) is in the --kz-direction-hover-* variables.
(() => {
  const SELECTOR = '.kodza-direction-hover';

  // The edge of the box the pointer is nearest to, in proportion: a wide tile still tells its
  // top from its sides. Measured on the whole link, the words under a product included.
  const edgeOf = (box, event) => {
    const rect = box.getBoundingClientRect();
    const x = (event.clientX - rect.left) / rect.width - 0.5;
    const y = (event.clientY - rect.top) / rect.height - 0.5;
    return Math.abs(x) > Math.abs(y) ? (x < 0 ? 'left' : 'right') : (y < 0 ? 'top' : 'bottom');
  };

  // One instance, with its own state: two copies on a page never interfere. Everything it
  // starts is tied to `signal` (listeners get { signal }), so kodza:destroy stops it all.
  function mount(root, signal) {
    const canHover = window.matchMedia('(hover: hover)');
    const links = [...root.querySelectorAll('.kodza-direction-hover__link')].filter((link) => link.closest(SELECTOR) === root);

    links.forEach((link) => {
      const covers = [...link.querySelectorAll('.kodza-direction-hover__caption, .kodza-direction-hover__photo')];
      const open = () => link.classList.add('is-open');
      const close = (edge) => {
        link.dataset.edge = edge; // the open state hides the change: it only says where to fold
        link.classList.remove('is-open');
      };
      // Folds the closed cover on the edge it will open from, with no transition (it is hidden
      // either way). Still on its way out, it is not moved: it turns back from where it is.
      const place = (edge) => {
        if (link.dataset.edge === edge || covers.some((el) => el.getAnimations().length)) return;
        link.classList.add('is-placing');
        link.dataset.edge = edge;
        void link.offsetWidth;
        link.classList.remove('is-placing');
      };
      // A mouse or a pen: a finger taps, and the tap follows the link
      const pointed = (event) => event.pointerType !== 'touch' && canHover.matches;

      link.addEventListener('pointerenter', (event) => {
        if (!pointed(event)) return;
        place(edgeOf(link, event));
        open();
      }, { signal });
      link.addEventListener('pointerleave', (event) => {
        if (!pointed(event) || link.matches(':focus-visible')) return;
        close(edgeOf(link, event));
      }, { signal });
      // From the keyboard only: a click gives the focus too, and the pointer already opened it
      link.addEventListener('focus', () => {
        if (!link.matches(':focus-visible')) return;
        place('bottom');
        open();
      }, { signal });
      link.addEventListener('blur', () => {
        if (!link.matches(':hover')) close('bottom');
      }, { signal });
    });
  }

  // Kodza lifecycle, the same in every component: `kodza:init` starts the instances inside
  // event.detail.root (the whole page by default), `kodza:destroy` stops them and puts their
  // markup back. For themes and apps that swap content without a page load. Each running root
  // keeps its markup as written under KODZA, shared by every Kodza script on the page: a Kodza
  // component inside another one is saved as written, not half-started, and stopped with it. Two
  // components on one root (a reveal on a stat card) both start, and stop together.
  const KODZA = Symbol.for('kodza');
  const RUNNING = Symbol.for(`kodza ${SELECTOR}`); // a root this component runs on, for every copy of this script
  const instances = new WeakMap();
  const find = (scope = document) => [scope, ...scope.querySelectorAll(SELECTOR)].filter((el) => el.matches?.(SELECTOR));
  const attrsOf = (el) => [...el.attributes].map((a) => [a.name, a.value]);
  const put = (el, saved) => {
    [...el.attributes].forEach((a) => el.removeAttribute(a.name));
    saved.attrs.forEach(([name, value]) => el.setAttribute(name, value));
    el.innerHTML = saved.html;
  };
  // The markup inside a root as written: Kodza components already running in it give back their own
  const written = (root) => {
    const all = [...root.querySelectorAll('*')];
    if (!all.some((el) => el[KODZA])) return root.innerHTML;
    const copy = root.cloneNode(true);
    const twins = copy.querySelectorAll('*');
    let last = null;
    all.forEach((el, i) => {
      if (!el[KODZA] || last?.contains(el)) return;
      last = el;
      put(twins[i], el[KODZA]);
    });
    return copy.innerHTML;
  };
  const init = (scope) => find(scope).forEach((root) => {
    // Already running, maybe from another copy of this script. Marked is-ready with no Kodza component
    // running on it, a root is a copy of a started one (a cloned slide): it is left as it is
    if (root[RUNNING] || (root.classList.contains('is-ready') && !root[KODZA])) return;
    // Rendered by React (data-kodza-manual): React starts it, with an init aimed at that markup once
    // it has hydrated it. Any earlier start would change markup React has not taken over yet
    const owner = root.closest('[data-kodza-manual]');
    if (owner && !(scope && owner.contains(scope))) return;
    const controller = new AbortController();
    // Another Kodza component already running on this root: its markup as written is kept, and the
    // two stop together
    const before = root[KODZA];
    const saved = { html: before ? before.html : written(root), attrs: before ? before.attrs : attrsOf(root), stop: () => destroy(root) };
    if (before) before.above = saved;
    instances.set(root, { controller, saved, before });
    root[KODZA] = saved;
    root[RUNNING] = true;
    mount(root, controller.signal);
    root.classList.add('is-ready');
  });
  const destroy = (scope) => find(scope).forEach((root) => {
    const instance = instances.get(root);
    if (!instance) return;
    instances.delete(root);
    instance.saved.above?.stop(); // a Kodza component started after it on the same root stops first
    // The Kodza components running inside it stop first: once its markup is put back, their own
    // script could not find them any more
    root.querySelectorAll('*').forEach((el) => el[KODZA]?.stop());
    instance.controller.abort();
    delete root[RUNNING];
    // Started on top of another one: that one stops next, and puts the markup back
    if (instance.before) {
      delete instance.before.above;
      root[KODZA] = instance.before;
      return instance.before.stop();
    }
    delete root[KODZA];
    put(root, instance.saved);
  });
  document.addEventListener('kodza:init', (event) => init(event.detail?.root));
  document.addEventListener('kodza:destroy', (event) => destroy(event.detail?.root));
  init();
  // Loaded in <head>, the script runs before the markup exists: once more when it is parsed
  if (document.readyState === 'loading') document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => init(), { once: true });
})();
```

Free to use, from Kodza (https://kodza.dev).