Hover effect over image as a link ideas

Question

I have an image on my page which I use as a link. I am trying to get an effect where when the hover is on the image it will become a little darker (transparent dark) and over the image will appear text saying "View". I am using Bootstrap, so it needs to be responsive.

I tried to do categorieimg:a hover in CSS but it doesn't seems to respond. If it can be done with jQuery, all suggestions welcomed.

My HTML:

@extends ('master') 

@section('content') 
<div class="row"> 
    <div class="col-md-12">
        <h1 class="text-center">Myhero Shop</h1> <br><br>
    </div> 
</div>  
<div class="row"> 

    @if ($categories)
    @foreach($categories as $category) 
    <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 text-center"> 
        <h3 >{{ $category['title'] }} </h3>   
        <p class><a href="{{ url('shop/'. $category['url']) }}" class="categorieimg"><img width="250" src="{{ asset('images/' . $category['image']) }}"></a></p>  
        <p>{!! $category['article']!!}</p>  

    </div> 
    @endforeach 
    @else 
    <div class="col-md-12"> <br><br>
        <p class="text-center" style="font-size: 18px"><b>No categories found...</b></p>
        <div 
            @endif
    </div>
    @endsection

Answer 1

To be able to achieve what you want, you should use PNG image not JPEF. Because JPEG images will take the full space of the element and you can't show the background-color anywhere.

See this working demo.

 img { width: 200px; height: 200px; background-color: red; } img:hover { background-color: gray; } 

 <img src="https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/commerce-5/100/.svg-6-128.png" alt="">