Making links like clicable blocks - html

Question

I am building a menu. I have this code:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Kontakt</li>
<li>Reference</li>
<li>Moje služby</li>
<li>Kdo jsem</li>
</ul>
</nav>
And CSS:
nav{
width: 100%;
height: 90px;
border-top: 3px solid red;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
background-color: white;
}
nav li{
float: right;
padding: 20px 35px 0 0px;
}
nav ul{
margin-right: 100px;
height: 90px;
list-style-type: none;
}
nav a{
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
font-size: 17px;
font-family: Montserrat;
font-weight: 700;
}
nav a:hover{
text-align: center;
color: 33adae;
What I am trying to do is to make the links clickable like blocks with the height of the whole navbar. The way I have done It so far, you can click only the text in the links.

Answer 1

Generally all that is needed is.
nav a{
display:block;
}
However for a fuller example it's generally easier to let the links determine the height of the header.
For centering, don't use floats, set the ul to text-align:center and the li to display:inline-block.
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
nav {
border-top: 3px solid red;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
background-color: white;
overflow: hidden;
/* clearfix */
}
nav li {
display: inline-block;
}
nav ul {
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
}
nav a {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
font-size: 17px;
font-family: Montserrat;
font-weight: 700;
height: 90px;
line-height: 90px;
padding: 0 25px;
}
nav a:hover {
text-align: center;
color: 33adae;
background: plum;
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Kontakt
</li>
<li>Reference
</li>
<li>Moje služby
</li>
<li>Kdo jsem
</li>
</ul>
</nav>

Answer 2

You could remove the padding from your lis and add it to your a tags. See example http://codepen.io/anon/pen/gaGxpb

Answer 3

Move your <li> padding to the <a> children, and give the links a height:
See codepen
NB: Added a border to the links so as you see the boundaries.

Answer 4

display the links as blocks display: block; and use the line-height to give them the height you want. Try this:
nav {
width: 100%;
height: 90px;
border-top: 3px solid red;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
background-color: white;
}
nav li {
float: right;
padding: 0px 35px 0 0px;
}
nav ul {
margin: 0 100px 0 0;
height: 90px;
list-style-type: none;
}
nav a {
display: block;
line-height: 90px;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
font-size: 17px;
font-family: Montserrat;
font-weight: 700;
}
nav a:hover {
text-align: center;
color: 33adae;
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Kontakt</li>
<li>Reference</li>
<li>Moje služby</li>
<li>Kdo jsem</li>
</ul>
</nav>

Answer 5

Here is my version using height and with properties instead of padding, i used background colors so you can see how is working: http://codepen.io/aluknot/pen/wKrqaG
HTML:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Kontakt</li>
<li>Reference</li>
<li>Moje služby</li>
<li>Kdo jsem</li>
</ul>
</nav>
CSS:
nav {
width: 100%;
height: 90px;
border-top: 3px solid red;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
background-color: white;
}
nav li{
float: right;
background: red;
text-align: center;
height: 100%;
width: 120px;
line-height: 90px
}
nav ul{
margin: 0;
padding-right: 100px;
height: 90px;
list-style-type: none;
background: green;
}
nav a{
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
font-size: 17px;
font-family: Montserrat;
font-weight: 700;
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: blue;
}
nav a:hover {
background: black;
color: white;
}