I am having trouble getting my mailto link working on this landing page. I have been googling and still have not found an answer why a simple mailto link is not working using Bootstrap.
I am trying to get the "Contact us" link in the top right menu to open a mail window and the "Refer now" link needs to go to an anchor tag lower in the page, code below. Webpage can be viewed at: website code
<div class="col-xs-10 text-right menu-1 main-nav">
<ul>
<li class="active">BENEFITS</li>
<li class="active">REQUIREMENTS</li>
<li class="active">CONTACT US</li>
<li><input type="submit" class='contact-button' value="REFER NOW" onclick="window.location.href='mailto:surveyorhr#carf.org'"></li>
<!-- For external page link -->
<!-- <li>External</li> -->
</ul>
</div>
Any help would be appreciated.
It seems strange to use an input type submit button for a mail link – those certainly are not made for mail links – apart from that any submit button would only work in the context of a form, i.e. inside a form element.
I would recommend to use a regular link and style it as a button using CSS.
(BTW: This has nothing to do with Bootstrap)
Currently you have some js running in main.js that is manipulating click events and preventing default browser behavior. If you remove the class "main-nav" from the div that contains your mailto link it begins to function again. Based on that I would revaluate your use cases in that js file.
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I see a lot of discussion on the internet about <a> tags that look like buttons, and rules that all links must obey. However, I am confused about <button> tags that are styled to look like links.
I am creating a single-page-app and my navigation component is responsible for rendering / hiding different sections of the website. Only one section would be visible at a time, so I'm treating each section as if it was a unique page with its own route.
My navigation controls are buttons, instead of links. I did this because there is nothing valid that I'm aware of, which I can put inside the hrefs (given that the hidden content is not present in the DOM).
I read on the internet that buttons must have styling to identify the priority of the button, for accessibility reasons. Ideally, I want the buttons to look like links since they behave similarly to links (although not identical).
Are there any accessibility concerns with styling buttons to look like links? Would it make more sense to style these buttons as buttons? If they should look like buttons then what should be the priority? Does it make more sense just to hide the hidden "pages" with css, so that I can turn the buttons into <a> tags and add an href?
Here is the typical markup for single page apps
<div>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>
<button data-name="Skills">Skills</button>
</li>
<li>
<button data-name="Projects">Projects</button>
</li>
<li>
<button data-name="History">History</button>
</li>
<li>
<button data-name="Employment">Employment</button>
</li>
<li>
<button data-name="Contact">Contact</button>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div id="content-panel">
Home
</div>
</div>
The part at the bottom div#content-panel represents the Home page. It will be replaced with the other pages using JavaScript, which will contain the main content of the website.
For those who stumble across this, please don't use <a> without an href, it results in an element that is not longer focusable with the keyboard.
The following fiddle shows this. Try using Tab to focus the links.
You could obviously add tabindex="0" to add them back to the focus order, but this is an anti-pattern and if you ever find yourself doing this it is an indication that you have made a mistake with your HTML.
<div>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>
<a data-name="Skills">Skills</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-name="Projects">Projects</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-name="History">History</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-name="Employment">Employment</a>
</li>
<li>
<a data-name="Contact">Contact</a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
<div id="content-panel">
Home
</div>
</div>
If you are building a SPA in a fashion similar to that described by the OP you should still be using anchors <a> for navigation.
There are a few things you should consider:
When each section is shown you should update the URL on the site via JavaScript.
If your site also has Server Side Rendering (SSR) and can function in a limited fashion without JavaScript (recommended as JavaScript does fail more often than you think due to network errors, JS errors for certain scenarios you missed etc. etc.) then the href of the anchors should point to the correct URL.
On SPA navigation it is recommended that once the new page is loaded you programatically set focus on that pages <h1>. You can do this by adding tabindex="-1" to the <h1> (which allows it to receive focus programatically without being added to the focus order of the page) and then using header1.focus()
For an even better experience for people who use a screen reader it may also be beneficial to add an aria-live section to the page with the value of assertive that announces "loading" once a link is clicked. <div aria-live="assertive"><!--add "loading" here programatically when the link is clicked, remove it once the page has loaded--></div>
I have a reasonably long answer with a bit more detail of this technique here that explains why.
To answer the original question finally!
You can style a button to look like a link. However consistency across a site is key.
So make sure that if that is the styling you use for buttons that the majority of buttons look the same.
Also if you make a button look like a standard link then really you should make your links look different to your buttons styled as links.
This avoids confusion as a button has the expectation it will change something on the current page or submit a form, a link has the expectation of changing the page / URL / navigation.
However the advice is not quite the same for a link styled like a button. It has become acceptable that links can be styled like buttons if they are a Call To Action for example. Yet again though, consistency across a site is key for a great user experience.
As stated on MDN Navigation expects to have a links as children. So if you want to prevent any accesibility issue, I suggest you to stick to them, just remove the href attribute and add a type="button" to your a tags.
Anything that looks like something else fools the user. This applies to a link looking like a button, a link looking like plain text, an h1 looking like an h2, a ul looking like an ol, etc. When the user is fooled, the user can get confused or be misled into errors. With a link that looks like a button, for example, the user may press Space to activate it and be surprised to find that it is not activated, but instead the page is scrolled.
I have used bootstrap nav nav-pills nav-justified
and i have 7 of these
<li>Form</li>
I have been able to click on form which will re-direct to the form page, but I can't seem to return to my home page without clicking back on the browser. I want to be able to just click on the Home button which i've included as part of my 7 <li>s I mentioned earlier. Also i would like to be able jump onto each page from the navbar tab.
<div class="header">
<div class="container">
<ul class="nav nav-pills nav-justified">
<li><a href "#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href "#">About</a></li>
<li><a href "#">JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href "#">JQuery</a></li>
<li>AngularJS</li>
<li><a href "#">API</a></li>
<li>Form</li>
<li><a href "#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
So from that above, when i click on form, im on the form page, but i cannot go back to the homepage(index.html) unless i click back on the browser, i wanna be able to link to all the lists by clicking each other.
Consider using Ajax to load different pages dynamically (with association with jQuery it said to be simpler to use) for the desired behavior or put everything on the single page and show content only when user clicks the link by JS and CSS.
As soon as you use Bootstrap elements you probably have jQuery already included in your project.
Useful links:
jQuery Ajax
Hiding elements with CSS
Check this page jQuery.get there is a very demonstrative example
$.get("demo_test.asp", function(data, status)
{
alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
});
where data - data received from the server. It should be your html code to replace the content.
To insert data use:
$.('#Content').html(data); //id="Content" is from the comment
if you do this in a local host and you created these files as i find out when you click on the home you get 404 page the only thing that you have to do is to link your homepage file to the home button if i'm wrong comment me and explain your problem more and then i will help you.
I'm very confused about how linking to an element within a page works. I'm learning the starter template for Twitter Bootstrap, and it contains the following code in the navbar:
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active">Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
I understand that within the list elements are anchor tags to #about and #contact, but where is the content defined for this? In the example site, the .starter-template div stays the same whenever I click the navbar buttons. What do I have to do to change the div whenever a navbar button is clicked? I tried doing this, but it just made a giant link as you would expect:
<a name="about">
<div class="container">
<div class="starter-template">
<h1>About.</h1>
<p class="lead">#about</p>
</div>
</div>
</a>
Thank you for any help!
~Carpetfizz
The links are placeholders. If you want to keep them the same, such as #about, you'd want to define an element in your page with that ID. For example, make a longer page, and include the following tag:
<h1 id="about">Here's the About Content</h1>
Clicking the link will jump to that spot in the page.
Wikipedia uses this approach to jump to sections in an article. For example, inspect the <span> tag containing the "See Also" text here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Bootstrap#See_also
However, since they are placeholders in the Bootstrap template, the idea is that you'll put in your own links as you see fit. For example, if you wanted to add a link to Yahoo, you'd enter your own HREF, like so:
Yahoo
Or target any other link in your site.
They're just placeholders. And if you want those targets to exist, you have to create the pages at the URLs they point to.
Such hash links can behave a little differently if you're developing a Single-page Application (SPA), but I think I've covered the simpler answer to what's confusing you. I.e., hash links attempt to jump to an ID within the page, but an element with that ID needs to exist for anything noticeable to occur.
This behavior is built into HTML; it's not something unique to using Bootstrap.
i have a working tabs instance here and prepared a jsfiddle (somehow the tabs don't work correctly here, but the link issue is still present):
http://jsfiddle.net/Gyrga/6/
The links in the tab panes don't work anymore and don't go to the URL http://somewhere.com at all.. Why? What did I overlook?
Thanks!
When you use the tabs, you need to do the following (according to the doc)
Home
<!-- etc -->
<div class="tab-content">
<div class="tab-pane active" id="home">...</div>
<!-- etc -->
</div>
But in your example, you put the data-toggle="tab" on the .tab-pane which breaks the links inside.
Just remove this attribute and put it on the link which actually toggles the tab. That way you won't even need the JavaScript to activate them.
Working demo (jsfiddle)
Hi guys I have bought this template, and I am trying to get a link into a sidebar (under links to tabs)
<ul class="nav2 nav">
<li class="selected">Seniors - Studies </li>
<br><div align="center"><img src="images/seniorbrochure.jpg" width="200" class="foo"><br>Download PDF<br><br><div class="heading">We Support</div></div></ul>
This is a bit of the code, as you see I have a link download PDF to pdf.pdf (just as testing) but whenever I click on it it actually loads a blank tab and doesn't try to go to pdf.pdf at all, I can't put the link outside of the ul tab or else the whole layout gets messed up, is there any way around this?
Is the filepath correct? "your website/folder/pdf.pdf" . Or maybe you could try putting a button in the sidebar to download it - <input type="button" value="Download PDF" onClick="window.location.href='/folder/pdf.pdf'">.