I'm trying to make a couple of DIVs clickable in its entirety. I tried this...
<div id="features" class="threeSplit">
<div id="box1">
<a href="javascript:;">
<h3>Watch TV anywhere</h3>
<p>While you're out of town, you can still watch live television.</p>
</a>
</div>
<div id="box2">
<a href="install">
<h3>No subscription</h3>
<p>Save your money. VRT and RTBF channels are available at no cost.</p>
</a>
</div>
<div id="box3">
<a href="coverage">
<h3>Picking up channels</h3>
<p>Television channels can be picked up from antennas near you.</p>
</a>
</div>
</div>
Click here for live version. Now, XHTML 1.0 Strict does not like that I put block elements inside an anchor tag. Is there a better way that does comply with XHTML Strict? I know the page still contains lots of validation errors, but this is only a quick 'n dirty mockup.
You could use an onclick event within the div elements...
<div id="box2" onclick='window.location = "install"'>
<h3>No subscription</h3>
<p>Save your money. VRT and RTBF channels are available at no cost.</p>
</div>
You could either
Put span tags inside of your a tags, instead of h3 and p, and style them accordingly
Use javascript to catch the click and follow the link, doing away with the a tag
The last option, I would say, is more elegant.
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I have two divs that act as links (<a>). One in one paragraph, the other in the second paragraph. The second link works: on mouseover (in Chrome) the bottom left of the window displays the link address. The top one does not do the same. What is wrong? I'm talking about the links in the paragraph tags, not the menu links.
<body ontouchstart>
<div class="header">
<div class="logo">Q<sup>3</sup></div>
<div class="desc">Quito's Qustom Qode</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="sidenav col2">
<a id="about" class="link-active">about</a>
<a id="pricing">pricing</a>
<a id="projects">projects</a>
<a id="legal">legal</a>
</div>
</div><!-- /row -->
<div class="row">
<div id="content" class="col10">
<div class="info">
<div class="about">
<div class="profile-back">
<div class="profile"></div>
</div>
<div class="about-me">
<p>Kevin (Quito [Key'-tow]) Williams is an aspiring front-end web designer. He has 5 years of experience in HTML, 4 years experience in CSS, and is currently studying jQuery. As a modern web designer, he is using his coding background to study the latest web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, RWD. In addition to his web technology languages, he is also familiar with: C<sup>++</sup>, Javascript, Java, Perl, Lua (Minecraft based), LISP, SQL. </p>
<p>Hello</p>
You've forgotten to add the actual link on your anchor tags through href.
Your current code:
<a id="about" class="link-active">about</a>
<a id="pricing">pricing</a>
<a id="projects">projects</a>
<a id="legal">legal</a>
Changes:
about
pricing
projects
legal
Can you be a bit more clear about what outcome you are expecting?
Edit: I think i understand now, "About" "Pricing" "Projects" should be hyperlinks?
you are missing the "href" attribute in the tags which should fix your problem.
If you don't want the link to direct to a different page, you can use href="#" to stop this.
Are you on about the following lines?
RWD.
<p>Hello</p>
If so, both are working fine in chrome and IE for me. I'm not sure what the issue is for you.
try this code,add target="_blank" in your a href
<p>Hello</p>
And the working fiddle link is here https://jsfiddle.net/p7mnsj3p/
I have some lengthy HTML which is over the 80 character limit for my project. We have a style guide which restricts the number of characters per line, which is good because right now the line runs so long that you can't see it all without scrolling right.
<div id="email-signup-container">
<div id="mc_embed_signup">
<div class="interested">
<div class="container">
<div class="left col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<h3>Help New York residents keep the heat on this winter.</h3>
DONATE
</div>
<div class="right col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
<h3>Without heat? Visit our resources page.</h3>
<a class="btn-interest" href="resources">RESOURCES</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Unfortunately, I can't find any style guides that cover multilining HTML. I worked on one project where we newlined things by attribute, but it was controversial:
<a
href="http://www.nycharities.org/donate/charitydonate.asp?ID=4081"
class="donate-btn btn-interest">DONATE</a>
Some people wanted the closing carot on a new line like this:
<a
href="http://www.nycharities.org/donate/charitydonate.asp?ID=4081"
class="donate-btn btn-interest"
>DONATE</a>
Other people wanted the closing tag at the same level as the opening tag:
<a
href="http://www.nycharities.org/donate/charitydonate.asp?ID=4081"
class="donate-btn btn-interest"
>
DONATE
</a>
I kind of hate all of them. Can anyone point to any published style guides that cover this so we can just adopt one and move on?
I've been wondering this as well. The only thing I could find was the guide from GoCardless, which says:
<!-- Try using line-breaks for multiple attributes, keeping the first attribute
on the tag's opening line -->
Good:
<div custom-attribute
class="something"
role="something-else"></div>
<!-- The closing tag ^^^ can stay on the same line for empty elements-->
<div custom-attribute
class="something"
role="something-else">
··Foo <!-- Otherwise nest plz -->
</div>
Not a definite answer, but I would like to add another suggestion: indenting the attributes twice, and the content only once.
An example:
<a
href="http://www.nycharities.org/donate/charitydonate.asp?ID=4081"
class="donate-btn btn-interest">
DONATE
</a>
For an a tag this kind of looks weird, but for longer tag-names, as are common in Angular, it looks fine:
<my-component
attribute1="val"
attribute2="val2"
attribute3="etc">
<span>Hello :)</span>
</my-component>
With HTML5, there were many additional elements added for structuring documents like blog posts or long texts. But what I have problems coming up with is a semantic way of structuring UI components.
On a typical webapp, you have many different components such as modals, button elements, interacitve forms, containers, and so on. Often, I see those things being constructed using div and span only or by misusing header, footerand nav elements and I get the feeling I missed something out.
Is it really semantic to create all structural, not content-related elements using the div element only? Will there be a more diverse element choice in the future?
EDIT: Here's a short example of what I mean:
<div class="modal foo">
<div class="inner wrapper">
<div class="upper bar">
<div class="inner">
<div class="window-name">
<span class="upper heading">
<h1>Foo</h1>
</span>
<span class="lower heading">
<h3>Extra Baz</h3>
</span>
</div>
<div class="buttons">
<div class="button close"><span class="icon"><i>×<i></span></div>
<div class="button maximize"><span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-maximize"><i></span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="content well">
<!--
Whatever happens inside the modal window named foo.
Pretty sure it needs many divs as well, though.
-->
</div>
<div class="lower bar">
<div class="buttons">
<div class="button help"><span class="icon"><i>?<i></span></div>
</div>
<span class="info">
<p>Enter your barbaz.</p>
</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The last W3C working draft for HTML 5.1 was released two days ago, on April, 13, and it is "semantic-centered": see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/Overview.html
It is an interesting reading, while waiting to have all those fancy things implemented by the most common browsers.
Is it really semantic to create all structural, not content-related elements using the div element only?
Not in my opinion. Even without to cite "the media is the message", everything has something to do with the content, even "open" and "close" buttons allowing users to see the content.
Will there be a more diverse element choice in the future?
Of course! And with a lot of proprietary prefixes, as usual, just to keep our life busier.
Ignoring div and span elements (which are meaningless, except for the case of specifying some meaningful attributes), your snippet consists of this:
<h1>Foo</h1>
<h3>Extra Baz</h3>
<i>×</i>
<i></i>
<!-- content -->
<i>?</i>
<p>Enter your barbaz.</p>
This is what your content looks like from the semantic perspective. Not very clear what gets represented here.
Using a heading element for a subtitle (h3 in your case) is not appropriate. (Or, if it’s not a subheading but really a new/own section, don’t skip a heading level; but I’m assuming the former.) Use one heading element, and use p for the subheading, and group them in header.
Using i elements for adding icons via CSS is not appropriate. Either use CSS only (with the help of existing elements), or, if you have to add an empty element, use span.
Using span/div elements for buttons is not appropriate. Use button instead.
As you are already using a heading element, it’s recommended to explicitly specify a sectioning content element. Depending on the context of this content, it may be article or aside (or nav if it’s for navigation), but in all other cases section.
Following this, you’d get:
<section>
<header>
<h1>Foo</h1>
<p>Extra Baz</p>
</header>
<button>Close</button>
<button>Maximize</button>
<!-- content -->
<button>Help</button>
<p>Enter your barbaz.</p>
</section>
Now you may add header/footer elements for those parts that are not part of this section’s (not this document’s, it’s only about this section!) main content.
You may, for example, enclose the maximize/close buttons in a header (however, opinions if this would be appropriate differ).
HTML 5.1 will probably have a menu element and a dialog element, which might be useful in this case.
So this is quite interesting to me. I've got the following example markup:
<a href="test.html">
<h2>Hello World</h2>
<div>
<p>Hello again</p>
</div>
</a>
When I have my Google Chrome (Version 26) rendering this, it shows me exactly this markup. But when I add an anchor inside the div like this:
<a href="test.html">
<h2>Hello World</h2>
<div>
<p>Hello again</p>
</div>
</a>
The browser outputs the following:
<a href="test.html">
<h2>Hello World</h2>
</a>
<div>
<a href="test.html">
<p>Hello again</p>
</a>
</div>
So this is absolutely not what I want. I can imagine it might makes sense in order to be able to click the inner link, that the anchors are only applied to some elements, but I would need it just how i wrote it there. It makes sense, because I have to copy the inner div to another position via JavaScript. But when I do that, the code is already messed up and shows the first link.
Does anybody know how to deal with this?
Many thanks in advance!
It is not allowed to nest a elements:
Content model:
Transparent, but there must be no interactive content descendant.
Interactive content is "content that is specifically intended for user interaction". For example a, button, input, audio, ….
I am using microformat for the first time.
So as examples given on http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164506, I changed the code.
This is the existing code that was present on the page:
<div class="evD mr10">
<div class="imgH fl"><img /></div>
<div class="infAr">
<h3>EVENT NAME</h3>
<h4><span>at</span>VENUE NAME</h4>
<p>Event Description</p>
<a class="tdd" href="#">Genre</a>
</div>
<div class="dth">
<div class="sfrD fl">
</div>
<div class="strE sn fl">
</div>
<div class="Buy">
<a class="bkT" href="buy_link"></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The Changes I made include :
Change the doctype to html5, and added microformat classes.
<div class="vevent evD mr10">
<div class="imgH fl"><img class="photo" /></div>
<div class="infAr">
<h3><a class="url summary" href="event_URL">EVENT NAME</a></h3>
<h4 class="location"><span>at</span>VENUE NAME</h4>
<p class="description">Event Description</p>
Genre
</div>
<div class="dth">
<div class="dtstart frD fl">DATE_START<span class="value-title" title="Date in ISO"></span></div>
<div class="dtend strE sn fl"><span class="value-title" title="Date in ISO"></span></div>
<div class="Buy tickets">
<a class="bkT offerurl" href="buy_link"></a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I have the following questions/doubts :
Is it ok to have existing classes alongwith the microformat tags as done above?
As mentioned on http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1093493#usage, it is not allowed to have display:none on the content. However, I pass the data set and paginate using javascript, in which I show the relevant data. So how do I make sure that these is not ignored.
I load the images which are on the current page, leaving the src as blank, and later change the src, as the page is changed. So initally the event's photo is blank.
How do I counter from a search engine reading as blank.
Thank you.
(Sorry about the question being so long)
1) that is no problem. You can even combine multiple types of semantic markup on the same tags.
2) 3)
If the data is hidden and in JavaScript/AJAX then it is highly unlikely Google will see it.
You may have to restructure your architecture to make your content crawlable. That's a big subject. I suggest looking up "progressive enhancement" which is the method I currently think is best.