I have a situation that looks something like this
<div class="x" href="foo">
<div class="y" href="bar"></div>
<div class="z"></div>
<div class="y" href="baz"></div>
fooz
</div>
x is a badge that should be clickable. The problem is that the badge also contains links that also should be clickable. In addition y and z are clickable. Unfortunately clicking the child links only leads to the outter x being pressed. How should I best handle something like this?
Continuing from my previous comment (assuming my understanding of your scenario was correct), here is your solution: http://jsfiddle.net/chricholson/7yzxQ/12/
It involves using stopPropagation to prevent the click being detected up the tree structure http://api.jquery.com/event.stopPropagation/
This doesn't work and it's not valid html, because nested a-elements are not allowed. For a solution more information is needed.
I think that you should not place <a> tags into another <a>. The solution here would be either using javascript, and event bubbling or you should separate the links and place/style them in a way where you see one integral badge. In the html you would actually build it from separated elements.
Personally I would go for the javascript way, as it is much more straightforward.
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I don't think it's the case but I'm still taking the shot: Is there such a thing as a non-hierarchical tag in HTML (for markup independent of content structure).
For instance, something like:
<div class="thingy" id="thing">
blabla<n-htag>bla
</div>
<div class="thingy" id="thing2">
John Dodelidoo</n-htag>
</div>
EDIT: I'm realizing now what you're asking is that you want a tag where you can group multiple tags together but being completely unrelated to the HTML structure (e.x. you could start it in the middle of one element and end it in the middle of another that is completely isolated). Because of the way XML is structured, you cannot; it is completely based on hierarchy (as far as I can tell).
For archival purposes, the original answer is below.
If I understand what you're asking, the closest thing we have to that (as far as I can remember) is <span>: while it doesn't change the visual appearance of the page, it allows you to group elements. (And obviously, while you aren't REQUIRED to indent it, you can).
I'm fixing an old WordPress syntax highlighter plugin (the plugin owner abandoned it), and while fixing the PHP errors was easy, while I'm fixing it, I might as well improve accessibility as well.
My question is regarding the HTML structure for the code. I want to show the number on one side and the code next to it:
I figured the HTML would be something like this:
<section> <!-- Maybe article? -->
<header>
<h1>Sample HTML</h1> <!-- Maybe <h3> would fit my blog posts best -->
<div role="toolbar">toolabar buttons here</div>
</header>
<ol>
<li><span class="sh-r "><div </span><span class="sh-e ">class</span>=<span class="sh-s ">"grid"</span><span class="sh-r ">></span>
...
</ol>
</section>
But I'm not sure. Should the code be in an <ol> or a <table>? Are the spans for changing the color ok? Is the toolbar role appropriate? Am I missing something? If anyone has an example of an accessible code highlighter, I'd love to see it.
The way it is right now, it's a table with all numbers in one <td> and all the code in another!
Should the code be in an <ol> or a <table>?
I would say that <ol> is more appropriate than <table>.
Using a table here looks a bit like presentational purpose only. I wouldn't call a table with line numbers on the left and code lines on the right exactly a data table.
Are the spans for changing the color ok?
As as default and because you can't do better in HTML anyway, I would say yes, it's fine.
IF HTML has more specific elements to semantically indicate keywords, blocks, numbers, strings, variables, etc. then you would be strongly recommanded to use them instead of spans.
But there aren't really such specific elements, except maybe <var, <kbd> and/or <samp>; but their semantic signification has never been very clear.
However, as a higher level, you should be using <code> or <pre> to enclose the whole code, to mark it as such.
The problem is that, if you use those two elements, you can no longer use <ol> or <table>.
Perhaps the most acceptable compromise would be <ol><li><code>One line of code</code></li>...</ol>.
In any case, for specific things like marking keywords inside the line of code, you don't have another better choice than <span> in what HTML has to offer.
Is the toolbar role appropriate?
Given that you haven't given the code inside the div, it's a bit difficult to answer.
Normally, a toolbar should contain a set of buttons or occasionally other controls like dropdown menus, and in principle nothig else then that.
If the content of that div corresponds to this simple definition, yes, the toolbar is appropriate. Otherwise, no.
Not that it isn't very worth it to use the toolbar role for less than 3 buttons
As I can imagine here, this div contains only a single button to copy the code in clipboard. If it's indeed the case, then by the definition above, it isn't very appropriate.
I need to hide a
</div>
without JavaScript or Jquery. I tried
<span style="display: none;"></div></span>
but it didn’t work at all.
Any help is much appreciated.
EDIT:
Thanks for confirming that it is NOT possible!
That’s what I wanted to know.
I solved my problem by changing my markup a little bit.
In my case it would have been logic because it simply would have saved some lines of code. (Basically I wanted to insert a div into another when a user activates an option, hiding just one closing tag and one new div opening tag when the option is disabled, showing them when the option is activated. It’s a tumblr theme with some closing tags rendered in {block:Posts} after every post. No need to get further in detail, i think it would be unnecessary complicated because the problem is already solved. Thanks!
I can think of absolutely no logical reason for doing this. even though a div tag may look like two elements to some, it is in fact one element and neither the starting nor the closing tag function on their own.
The fact that a
</div>
tag is being displayed suggests that you have an extra closing tag - there is no corresponding
<div>
opening tag. These tags should never be displayed on a page if implemented correctly.
Try looking through your code and checking every opening
<div>
has a corresponding
</div>
In html all tags must be in pairs, having one opening and one closing tag. e.g.
<div id "test">
Test text!
</div>
JP
Probably a silly questions, but I'd like to have a hyperlink withing another hyperlink, much like a
<a href="#somewhere">
This is the hyperlink,
and this is the other one
</a>
Aside from that it's not compliant and all, is there a way of doing this?
*Edit: the outer hyperlink is used by a carousel, and won't take the browser somewhere.
Lets think about this. What is the browser suppose to do?
Go to the first hyperlink, or the second one, or both?
If you want the first one, then the second hyperlink is not required.
If you want the second one, then close the first one before and reopen if necessary after closing the second.
If both then write some Javascript to get it to open a new window. for the second hyperlink before loading the first hyperlink.
Anchor tags, just like inline or block level elements, layer up on top of each other when nested such that attributes can be set for different subsets of information or visual space within them. This may be useful if you have a large anchor element functioning as a large button, but want to insert a link to a different location within that button.
Have you tried implementing it? See this jsFiddle proving that nested inline elements work, both with span and anchor tags. Note that the nested element overrides the clickable area subset within the parent element, just as you'd expect it to if you were listening for a hover event.
Disclaimer: While technically this can be done, that doesn't mean that it should be done. Nesting links in particular can result in user confusion and be misleading about what content is pointing to what locations.
You can't nest it, but you can do something I did below..
<a href="somewhere">
This is the hyperlink,</a>
and this is the other one
May be you solution:
<form action="http://myhomepage.ru/" method="get">
second link within
<button>first link</button>
</form>
It is very easy with links and images. One could just specify title="Something" to get a nice tooltip over an element. But somehow I don't see any convenient way to do the same to a button. Seems like HTML itself miss this option at the first place.
But maybe there is at least a handy workaround for that?
Jesse Gumm from nitrogenweb googlegroup shared a nice way to do this
#button{text="Submit",postback=whatever,actions="obj('me').title=\"Some title\""}