<a> tag in another <a> tag - html

I have a strange problem with my html/css code. I would like to have a tag in another one tag. Here is a basic code of my task:
<a href='2.html'>
<div style="width: 300px; height: 200px; padding-left: 100px; padding-top: 100px;">
text <a href='1111.html'> OK </a> text
</div>
</a>
This solution doesn't help me because of the task and the current code of the application:
<div style="width: 300px; height: 200px; padding-left: 100px; padding-top: 100px;">
<a href='2.html'>text </a><a href='1111.html'> OK</a> <a href='2.html'>text </a>
</div>

I would like to have a tag in another one tag.
You cannot. It is forbidden by the HTML specification.
HTML 5:
Content model:
Transparent, but there must be no interactive content descendant.
a elements are interactive content.
HTML 4:
<!ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A) -- anchor -->
Note the -(A) which excludes a element descendants.
XHTML 1:
a
must not contain other a elements.

What you're asking for isn't valid. Nested <a> tags are not allowed.
But you may try something like this
<div onclick="window.location='http://www.example.com/a.html'">
text...
<a href='http://www.example.com/b.html'>OK</a>
</div>

That is invalid, you cannot have a hyperlink inside another hyperlink.
The only way of getting around, is to create a hyperlink1, then create hyperlink2, then again write a hyperlink 2 to make it feel like the hyperlink1 is a wrapper around hyperlink2. Which you're already using.

in html language there is some rules that only one hyperlink inside the tag. There is no rule that allow you to insert two links in tag.
OK
This is the syntax that you should use. If you want it to give another link then you have to write the link another time.

As people have previously stated, your code is invalid. <a href='2.html'>text </a> would just turn out as a link to 2.html but when you write <a href='1111.html'> OK <a href='2.html'>text </a> , you are trying to write a link which goes to 2.html and 1111.html at the same time. If you want the link to open two locations at the same time, you are going to have to use JavaScript. To do exactly what you want above, you'd want this:
HTML
<div style="width: 300px; height: 200px; padding-left: 100px; padding-top: 100px;">
<a href='2.html'>text </a><a href='javascript:openTwo();'> OK </a><a href='2.html'>text </a>
</div>
JS
function openTwo(){
window.open("1111.html", "first Window", _blank);
window.open("2.html", "second Window", _blank);
}

Related

Add a Tab character to a URL Link text

How can I add a tab character to the link text on a URL
i.e. instead of
col1 col2
i have col1 -TAB SPACE HERE- col2
The reason for this, is that Im creating a URL list by concatenating columns, and want to space them out correctly, so the url list looks neat.
Ive tried adding a chr(9) into the gap, as well as but it doesn't work. I also know I can target the link with an a:link {...} but not sure how to use this to get a tab in there.
Any help much appreciated
thx. Richard
There are no Tabs in html. Why don't you use a span inside?
<a href="url">
<span class='column'>col1</span>
<span class='column'>col2</span>
</a>
Then add 'column' to your css:
.column {
width: 50px;
float: left;
}
If you cannot add CSS (you can only modify the text) then you need to add styling inline:
<a href="url">
<span style='width: 50px; float: left;'>col1</span>
<span style='width: 50px; float: left;'>col2</span>
</a>

Convert whole div which contains anchor tags into a link

<div style="height: 100px; border: solid; border-width: 2px; border-color: #000">
Box 1
<p>A</p>
</div>
I want to convert the div into a link. Note that div includes an anchor tag. What is the best way to do it.
Following code doesn't work. But that's the rough idea to my problem.
<a href="/x">
<div>
Box 1
<p>A
</p>
</div>
</a>
The a element may be wrapped around entire paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth, even entire sections, so long as there is no interactive content within (e.g. buttons or other links).— W3C Documentation
The anchor element may not contain any interactive content. This includes other anchors. This is one of the more strict rules too. It not only goes against spec, but it completely breaks functionality in major browsers. Chrome alone parses your example to include four links!
You'll need a preprocessing language to alter the markup (server side language or javascript on the front end manipulating ajax return data), or you'll just have to manually change the HTML. Either way, in the end, you'll need to switch that inner anchor out with a span or some other non-interactive element.
I have found a useful jsfiddle for you that uses <a class='default-link' href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='window.location = "http://www.google.com"'</a> for the actual <div>'s link, and then has independent links within this.
Click here to see the jsfiddle
You can simply add display: block; and use the height you need it will do the trick !
DEMO
or you can use inline javascript as that
<div style="height: 100px; border: solid; border-width: 2px; border-color: #000; cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.location='/a'">
Box 1
<p>A
</p>
</div>
The following code is worked for me. But I don't know it's a valid one even with HTML5.
<a style="display:block" href="/a">
<div style="border: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #FFF">
<div>
<h3>Heading</h3>
</div>
B
C
</div>
</a>

html anchor tag

I have the following div tag:
<div id="headerimage"></div>
associated with this is the following css:
#headerimage
{
width: 897px;
height: 65px;
background: url('../images/headerimg.jpg');
}
I need the background image to be clickable to where when the user clicks it, it goes to url.
I did the following and it works but not sure if there is a more elegant way (Note how I have it within an anchor tag:
<a href="http://www.myurl.com">
<div id="headerimage"></div>
</a>
Nate,
You could just turn your anchor tag into a block element: http://jsfiddle.net/Vdfz8/
Hope that helps, and maybe even simplifies things for ya.
Cheers

a href link for entire div in HTML/CSS

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>

div inside anchor

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>