Use CSS to hide messages or images

Erik Kastner found an interesting use for “CSS3’s selection pseudo element” (supported by Safari and Firefox) and devised a interesting hack that allows you to hide images in texts. You can make every kind of text hide every sort of image, the image will become visible when you select the text. Check out the example that I created, I mashed up a repetition of the text “Sylvia vliegt.” (Dutch for Sylvia is flying) and a Flickr photo;

Is it a bird? Is it plane?

Go on make your own hidden images with the script Erik Kastner wrote “Text + Image + CSS3 = Crazy Delicious“.