I am building new website and I've run into a little problem.
When I added next to my div and after the div end, but the hover does not work on the div. When I delete <a href"about.php"> and </a> the hover works.
Here is HTML code:
<div id="centerbox">
<div class="profile"></div>
<a style="display:block" href="about.php"><div class="about"></div></a>
</div>
</div>
And here is CSS Code
#centerbox {
width:988px;
height:462px;
margin-top:8.7%;
margin-right:auto;
margin-left:auto;
}
.about {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
display: block;
margin-left:15.8%;
margin-top:-150px;
background:url(/images/about1.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
This problem is that the div is a block element and the a tag is an inline element. A block element cannot go inside of an inline. You'll need to change your <div> to a <span> or something that is inline.
When an block element is inside the inline the browser will usually try to fix it by moving it out of the inline element.
If you need the effect of the block element on say the <span> mentioned above you could add display:block to the span.
See this post for further clarification
Make the .hover on your (a) tag rather then the class you are applying it to that should probably work :)
I solved it. I changed the <a style="display:block" href="about.php"><div class="about"></div></a> to <div class="about" onclick="window.location = 'about.php';">
You don't want to store a div inside of an ref tag. You can give that ref tag a class though which will give it styling for that class
http://exfluor.com/productsMain.html
I can't seem to get the boundary of the clickable link area to stay within the bounds of the <div> it is making a link(11 buttons linking to product categories). Even with using a class to specify the width, it spans the entire width of the <td> it is in. I've run out of options.
<a href="bycategory.php?cat=anhydrides">
<div class="category" align="center">
Anhydrides<br><img src="images/cat/anhydrides.jpg" alt="">
</div>
</a>
Use block display:
.catTable a {
...
display: block;
}
To set element's witdth it must have block or inline-block display. Also consider setting overflow: hidden.
Add word-wrap: break-word property to your as. It will break your links appropriately. You should pay attention though: You will not get automatic hyphenation from this. For that you would have to look into some library like hypenator
See this fiddle as an example: http://jsfiddle.net/8Lrhr22u/
Your HTML is not valid. You can't put div into a (well you can but it's not reliable). Instead try to improve markup a little (span instead of div):
<a href="bycategory.php?cat=hydrofluorocarbons">
<span class="category" align="center">Hydrofluorocarbons<br>
<img src="images/cat/hydrofluorocarbons.jpg" alt="">
</span>
</a>
However it's not really necessary, since setting a to display: inline-block should fix the issue:
.catTable a {
display: inline-block;
}
I have got this div..:
<div id="logoCover" style="position: absolute;width: 341px;height: 100px;z-index: 9999;top: 0px;left: 0px;"></div>
The problem with the div, is that, it would only show in ie8, if i give it a background color.
Otherwise the div wont exist, which means the user cant click on it.. why is that behavior common in ie8 and how do I prevent it
UPDATE:
This is the element on which I try to place my div:
#logo {
float: left;
height: 93px;
}
logo is an image
FULL HTML:
<div id="logo" style="position:relaive;">
<a href="/" style="position: absolute;padding:60px;padding-right: 300px;z-index: 9999;top:-20px;left: 0px;;display:block;" ></a>
<img src="images/BestCam_logo.png" width="1009px" />
</div>
<div> tags are not supported as content for <a> tags inside of standard HTML. Some browsers try to acommodate for this, but you really can't depend on every browser implementation to handle it the same way.
However, you can make an <a> tag a block element (it is an inline element by default) and move the style from the <div> tag to the <a> tag. This would also eliminate the need for the inner <div> tag in your example.
try adding display:block or insert a ' '
also, check that your relative div is also rendering right.
hope that helps.
<div id="logo" style="position:relaive;">
<a href="/" style="position: absolute;padding:60px;padding-right: 300px;z-index: 9999;top:-20px;left: 0px;;display:block;background-image: url('images/emptyImage.png')" ></a>
<img src="images/BestCam_logo.png" width="1009px" />
</div>
Solved the problem, What I had to do is to use a transparent image, as a background.
Here is what I am trying to accomplish in HTML/CSS:
I have images in different heights and widths, but they are all under 180x235. So what I want to do is create a div with border and vertical-align: middle them all. I have successfully done that but now I am stuck on how to properly a href link the entire div.
Here is my code:
<div id="parentdivimage" style="position:relative;width:184px;height:235px;border-width:2px;border-color:black;border-style:solid;text-align:center;">
<div id="childdivimage" style="position:absolute;top:50%;height:62px;margin-top:-31px;">
<img src="myimage.jpg" height="62" width="180">
</div>
</div>
Please note that for the sake of copy pasting here easily, the style code is inline.
I read somewhere that I can simply add another parent div on top of the code and then do a href inside that. However, based on some research it won't be valid code.
So to sum it up again, I need the entire div (#parentdivimage) to be a href link.
UPDATE 06/10/2014: using div's inside a's is semantically correct in HTML5.
You'll need to choose between the following scenarios:
<a href="http://google.com">
<div>
Hello world
</div>
</a>
which is semantically incorrect, but it will work.
<div style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.location='http://google.com';">
Hello world
</div>
which is semantically correct but it involves using JS.
<a href="http://google.com">
<span style="display: block;">
Hello world
</span>
</a>
which is semantically correct and works as expected but is not a div any more.
Why don't you strip out the <div> element and replace it with an <a> instead? Just because the anchor tag isn't a div doesn't mean you can't style it with display:block, a height, width, background, border, etc. You can make it look like a div but still act like a link. Then you're not relying on invalid code or JavaScript that may not be enabled for some users.
Do it like this:
Parentdivimage should have specified width and height, and its position should be:
position: relative;
Just inside the parentdivimage, next to other divs that parent contains you should put:
<span class="clickable"></span>
Then in css file:
.clickable {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
left: 0;
top: 0;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
}
The span tag will fill out its parent block which is parentdiv, because of height and width set to 100%. Span will be on the top of all of surrounding elements because of setting z-index higher than other elements. Finally span will be clickable, because it's inside of an 'a' tag.
Going off of what Surreal Dreams said, it's probably best to style the anchor tag in my experience, but it really does depend on what you are doing. Here's an example:
Html:
<div class="parent-div">
Test
Test
Test
</div>
Then the CSS:
.parent-div {
width: 200px;
}
a {
display:block;
background-color: #ccc;
color: #000;
text-decoration:none;
padding:10px;
margin-bottom:1px;
}
a:hover {
background-color: #ddd;
}
http://jsbin.com/zijijuduqo/1/edit?html,css,output
Two things you can do:
Change #childdivimage to a span element, and change #parentdivimage to an anchor tag. This may require you to add some more styling to get things looking perfect. This is preffered, since it uses semantic markup, and does not rely on javascript.
Use Javascript to bind a click event to #parentdivimage. You must redirect the browser window by modifying window.location inside this event. This is TheEasyWayTM, but will not degrade gracefully.
I'm surprised no one suggested this simple trick so far! (denu does something similar though.)
If you want a link to cover an entire div, an idea would be to create an empty <a> tag as the first child:
<div class="covered-div">
<a class="cover-link" href="/my-link"></a>
<!-- other content as usual -->
</div>
div.covered-div {
position: relative;
}
a.cover-link {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
This works especially great when using <ul> to create block sections or slideshows and you want the whole slide to be a link (instead of simply the text on the slide). In the case of an <li> it's not valid to wrap it with an <a> so you'd have to put the cover link inside the item and use CSS to expand it over the entire <li> block.
Do note that having it as the first child means it will make other links or buttons inside the text unreachable by clicks. If you want them to be clickable, then you'd have to make it the last child instead.
In the case of the original question:
<div id="parentdivimage" style="position:relative;width:184px;height:235px;border-width:2px;border-color:black;border-style:solid;text-align:center;">
<a class="cover-link" href="/my-link"></a> <!-- Insert this empty link here and use CSS to expand it over the entire div -->
<div id="childdivimage" style="position:absolute;top:50%;height:62px;margin-top:-31px;">
<img src="myimage.jpg" height="62" width="180">
</div>
<!-- OR: it can also be here if the childdivimage divs should have their own clickable links -->
</div>
Make the div of id="childdivimag" a span instead, and wrap that in an a element. As the span and img are in-line elements by default this remains valid, whereas a div is a block level element, and therefore invalid mark-up when contained within an a.
put display:block on the anchor element. and/or zoom:1;
but you should just really do this.
a#parentdivimage{position:relative; width:184px; height:235px;
border:2px solid #000; text-align:center;
background-image:url("myimage.jpg");
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-repeat:no-repeat; display:block;
text-indent:-9999px}
<a id="parentdivimage">whatever your alt attribute was</a>
This can be done in many ways.
a. Using nested inside a tag.
<a href="link1.html">
<div> Something in the div </div>
</a>
b. Using the Inline JavaScript Method
<div onclick="javascript:window.location.href='link1.html' ">
Some Text
</div>
c. Using jQuery inside tag
HTML:
<div class="demo" > Some text here </div>
jQuery:
$(".demo").click( function() {
window.location.href="link1.html";
});
I simply do
onClick="location.href='url or path here'"
What I would do is put a span inside the <a> tag, set the span to block, and add size to the span, or just apply the styling to the <a> tag. Definitely handle the positioning in the <a> tag style. Add an onclick event to the a where JavaScript will catch the event, then return false at the end of the JavaScript event to prevent default action of the href and bubbling of the click. This works in cases with or without JavaScript enabled, and any AJAX can be handled in the Javascript listener.
If you're using jQuery, you can use this as your listener and omit the onclick in the a tag.
$('#idofdiv').live("click", function(e) {
//add stuff here
e.preventDefault; //or use return false
});
this allows you to attach listeners to any changed elements as necessary.
A link with <div> tags:
<div style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.location='http://www.google.com';">
Something in the div
</div>
A link with <a> tags:
<a href="http://www.google.com">
<div>
Something in the div
</div>
</a>
This doesn't happen all the time. A bug is not a bug if cannot be reproduced!
First, I thought this was a mistake of my young programming skills but same error appears in my two sites, apparently under the same circumstances.
<a style="display:block;" href="link">
<div>text1</div>
<div>text2</div>
</a>
Sometimes, while browsing, links with divs inside them render strangely, duplicate elements appear on the page with no reason, text gets distributed between different links, a real mess.
Real screenshots:
http://cupacupelor.ro/img/help.jpg
http://www.carbroker.ro/img/help.jpg
Anyone faced this problem? Is there a solution? I'm not interested of fixes involving JavaScript!
I guess your divs in links cause inconsistency in some browsers (may be your css playing here).
"Semantics", valid markup are some buzz words.
So why would you want DIVs in an <A> tag. You can try someting like this
<a href="#">
<span class="divstyle">Text 1</span>
<span class="divstyle">Text 2</span>
</a>
then in CSS
.divstyle {
display: block; //and other styles etc
}
Check your page in a HTML validator. I'm 90% sure that you can't have a <div> element inside inline elements like <a>. Even though you've set the link to display:block, it's still not allowed and the browsers may be spitting their dummy.
What you can do is use spans instead, setting them to block:
<style type="text/css">
.link, .link span { display: block; }
</style>
<a class="link" href="example.com">
<span>text1</span>
<span>text2</span>
</a>