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HTML

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="hover-area">HOVER</div>
        <div class="caption-area">
            <h1>TITLE</h1>
            <p>I know I have seen something similar to this online but I don't have a good example.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="hover-area">HOVER</div>
        <div class="caption-area">
            <h1>TITLE</h1>
            <p>I was hoping there might be some sort of plug-in with the structure set I could design around.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>


<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="hover-area">HOVER</div>
        <div class="caption-area">
            <h1>TITLE</h1>
            <p>Looking to accomplish something like this</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="hover-area">HOVER</div>
        <div class="caption-area">
            <h1>TITLE</h1>
            <p>One point of jQuery is to be able accomplish just this sort of dynamic behavior easily, so I don't think you need a special plugin.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="hover-area">HOVER</div>
        <div class="caption-area">
            <h1>TITLE</h1>
            <p>Looks really good, thanks mate! Let me play with implementing into my design and ill get back to you.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="hover-area">HOVER</div>
        <div class="caption-area">
            <h1>TITLE</h1>
            <p>Let me edit my solution to handle multiple hovers.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.wrapper { 
    float:left; 
    padding:10px; 
    margin:10px;
    width:150px; height:170px;
    position:relative; z-index:1; 
}

.container { 
    border:1px solid #789;
    cursor:pointer;
    font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
    background:#ccc;
    padding:10px;
    width:150px; 
    position:absolute; z-index:1; 
}
.hover-area { 
    background:#eee;
    padding-top: 60px;
    text-align:center;
    width:150px; height:90px;
}
.caption-area { width:150px; height:27px; overflow-y:hidden; }
.caption-area h1 { font:bold 18px/1.5 Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; }

JavaScript

var cahOrig = $('.caption-area').height();
$('.wrapper').each(function(i,obj){
    $(obj).css('z-index',9999-i); // so the slide-down isn't covered
});

$('.wrapper').bind('mouseenter', function(e) {

    var $ca = $(this).find('.caption-area');
    
    $ca.css('height','auto');
    var cahAuto = $ca.height();
    $ca.css('height',cahOrig+'px');
    
    $ca.animate({'height':cahAuto+'px'},600);

});

$('.wrapper').bind('mouseleave', function(e) {
    $(this).find('.caption-area').animate({'height':cahOrig+'px'},600);
});