I'd like to add a hyperlink to this background image. Should I create a new class within the stylesheet? (When I attempted to call the new class, the image disappeared).
body{
background-image:url('http://thehypebr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/boundless-sem-branco-2.jpg');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-attachment:fixed;
line-height:20px; font-size:14px;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
margin:0
}
EDIT: Now there's whitespace on the top and bottom (created by the new div class?)
You're using a background-image on the body tag. Assigning a hyperlink to it is impossible.
Also, whats stopping you from using it in an img tag? This seems like a semantically valid thing to do:
<img src="http://thehypebr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/boundless-sem-branco-2.jpg" alt="Image" />
But, if you must use it as a background image, than creating an additional class is the way to go.
You can place a div behind everything on the page, give it a background image, and then add an onclick handler to that div. But you can't hyperlink a background image.
You'd have to do something like:
<body>
<div id='background' onclick='window.location.href="mynewurl"'>
<!-- Rest of page goes here -->
</div>
</body>
Also, add cursor: pointer to the css for the background div so people know it's a link.
OK, I can't tell you if this would be a valid solution, because I would have to see what you actually wanted to be a link. If for example you wanted to make a link to the cream "Boundless" boxes in your background image I do have a work around. It will be a pain to get it correct cross browser, but it's doable.
Make clear gif's the same size as your cream boxes
Put those images in something like this <img src="blank.gif" alt="Link Location" />
Use CSS to make the a tag a block element and place it over the cream boxes in the background image
I would of course clean up my code, it's a mess, but I am sure you can figure that out. Just make sure to have descriptive alt tags for accessibility.
This isn't the best solution, that would be to take the "boundless" boxes out of the background image and place them instead of the blank gifs, but if you HAVE to do it for one reason or another, this option will work.
You're going to have to change your html code a bit to do that. You need to surround the image with a tag, but you can't do that to the <body> tag, obviously.
** EDIT ** Since it's been pointed out my first answer is invalid HTML (thanks, and sorry), you can use a jquery approach like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("body").click(function(){
window.location='http://www.yoururl.com';
});
});
The issue with setting up an onClick method, is that you remove the anchor hint at the bottom left of the browser window, as well as any SEO that might be associated with the link.
You can accomplish this with just HTML/CSS:
<style>
.background-div {
background-image:url("/path/to/image.jpg");
position:relative;
}
.href:after {
position:absolute;
top:0;
bottom:0;
left:0;
right:0;
content:"";
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="background-div">
</div>
</body>
In this case, the relative positioning on background-div will keep the link contained to only that div, and by adding a pseudo element to the link, you have the freedom to still add text to the link (if necessary), while expanding the click radius to the entire background div.
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My Problem
I want to be able to handle my CSS this way, that when I add a class named "sold-out" to my div , it should add a sold-out overlay stamp. At the moment I have the problem, that it seems like I am destroying the CSS of other classes. However I hope you can help me with a good solution.
My HTML:
<div class="rotate sold-out">
<a href="images/packages/background01.jpg" rel="imagebox" title="">
<img src="images/packages/background01.jpg" alt=""/></a>
</div>
As you can see I have inserted an image there and the sold-out stamp (which is a transparent .png) should be shown at the highest layer ofcourse.
My CSS try:
.sold-out {
content: url(../images/sold_out_stamp.png);
}
This is what happened:
The image inside the div is completely gone. I only see the Sold-out-stamp with a white background.
You are on the right track. Instead of replacing the sold-out element's content with the overlay image (and thereby replacing it entirely) you should set the pseudo element's content and position it over the sold-out element.
.sold-out{ position:relative; }
.sold-out::before{
content:url(../images/sold_out_stamp.png);
position:absolute;
z-index:2;
top:0;
left:0;
}
*didn't test, but should work in theory... If you make a fiddle with the correct images linked I'm happy to refine, but this should at least be close.
Let me know if you need further direction.
In my webpage, I've an image, and a link in this image.
<a href='..'><img src='...' class='img-circle'></a>
(img-circle is part of the Twitter Bootstrap library)
I would like that the link is only on the image, e. g. on the circle, and not on the square. Do you know a solution please ?
You will need to create an anchor link on the image like so:
#a {
position:absolute;
border-radius:100px;
background-color:#72CEE0;
width:100px;
height:100px;
left:150px;}
And the HTML:
<div id="a" onclick="window.location='http://whatever.com';"><img src="image.jpg"></div>
You will have to modify the left, width, border-radius and height properties above in order to match the size, shape and position of your circular image.
Here is an example from another answer on Stack Overflow:
http://jsfiddle.net/avTa8/
EDIT: It seems that Chrome may have a problem with onclick, although I am not sure what the real reason for this problem is, instead just simply place an a href around the div like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/6UYTL/2/
I have an image, on which I want to place links, which could be either text or an image. Pretty much what Wikipedia has here for example (the map of Germany and its states): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany
Back in the 90s I would've used the map tag to create clickable parts on the image.
I've looked at the source code of the map on Wikipedia and noticed that all the states of an absolute position. So is there an easy way to implement such a thing? Or do I have to use, for example, Photoshop to check for the absolute position and hardcode it in CSS/HTML?
As you already noticed, Wikipedia uses <div>-elements which are positioned over the image. One way or another you would need to provide the (absolute) coordinates for the texts you want to place on top of the image.
You can try to fiddle around to get the correct coordinates or use a(ny) image editing application to exactly find the required coordinates within the image.
Wikipedia uses some structure like this
HTML:
<div class="container">
<img src="myImage.png" />
<div class="text1">Text1</div>
<div class="text2">Text2</div>
</div>
CSS:
.text1 {
position:absolute;
left:50px;
top:100px
}
.text2 {
position:absolute;
left:200px;
top:50px
}
(Except that they directly put the CSS styles in the HTML elements...)
See this jsFiddle for an working example.
I guess you need a HTML map (example http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_map.asp) plus some javascript to include the text over it.
Please take a look to the following question, it might help you:
HTML, jQuery : Show text over area of image-map
If you are creating something similar in the link you mentioned, you gotta be pin pointing those positions. Isn't it? absolute positioning is good to go in that case.
But if your scenario does not require you to put those links in the exact locations on the image, you can try something like this.
CSS//////////
div.back{
background:url('path/to/your/image.extension');
width:/*width of the image*/;
height:/*height of the image*/
}
This div with class back will just work like the way you want. Then put the links inside the div and the links will be displayed on top of that image.
Check out this fiddle.
I have a button that, when hovered over, I would like the background image to display also. (It is an arrow an explanation of the button). There are quite a few questions similar, but I couldn't quite tweak the answers to work for me.
The HTML looks like
<div id="header_feedback">
<a href="#contactForm">
<img title="Add an Event" src="./img/header_feedback.png" alt="Give us your Feedback"/>
</a>
</div>
the CSS then is
#header_feedback
{margin-left:730px;
margin-top:-135px;
position:absolute;}
#header_feedback:hover
{
background: url ('./img/addevent_tip.png');
}
Any ideas hugely welcome!
The main problem here is not with your CSS. Itagi's answer correctly identified the minor issue that you can't have a space between url and the parens/address.
But there are two other bigger issues:
Invalid image url: when applied, background: url('./img/addevent_tip.png'); fails to find a valid image. To fix this, you either need two periods or zero. So either background: url('/img/addevent_tip.png'); or background: url('../img/addevent_tip.png');
Backgrounds applied to opaque images aren't visible: Since the entire content of the div is an image and that image has no transparency, you will not be able to see the on-hover change even when it happens correctly. You can adjust for this by making part of the image transparent (and, perhaps, setting a background for the non-hover state that leads it to look the way it normally does), or by abandoning the image in favor of CSS spriting.
you just need to change it the following way:
#header_feedback:hover
{
background: url('./img/addevent_tip.png');
}
no whitespace between 'url' and the actual url
#header_feedback a img{ display:none;}
#header_feedback a:hover img{display:block}
I'm reworking a site but only have permission to change the CSS. Most of the elements I need to change are properly tagged as id's or classes, but a few places have ids or classes listed inside an img tag.
I want to replace that image in the img tag using only css. Is there a way to do this? ie, hide the src img and have only my css referenced image visible?
sorry for such a late post, (almost a year, i know..), but i had the same exact problem Dreamling,
Some of the html used on our site is called up externally, so editing the html was not an option for me either. Here's how i solved the problem... Using only CSS.
Use Firebug if you have it.
Now look for the image you'd like to replace in the HTML. (firebug will show the id's and classes of the elements)
Your HTML should look something like this for it to work. (with an img src element inside a span element)
<span class="Dreamlings_ClassA Dreamlings_ClassB">
<img src="http://www.dreamlingsSite.com/dreamlingspic.png" alt="Dreamling's Pic">
<span>[This is just an extra span!] </span>
</span>
Now for the CSS :)
Call up the first element by class in the css. (use the last class name to be more specific in with editing [if you have multiple span elements with same first class name])
<span class="Dreamlings_ClassB">
should look something like this..
span.Dreamlings_ClassB {
background-image: url('../dreamlingsnewpic.png') !important;
}
and to hide that pesky image in the img src element..
span.Dreamlings_ClassA img {
display: none !important;
}
And thats it! :)
p.s. I was using the !important tags in my css to overwrite other external stylesheets..
but you don't have to use the tags if yours css will work without them. (you just have to be more specific in the css with id's and classes)
Hope this helped!
-tony
If your image tag is inside a container, anything that's a block, then use this:
<style>
#container {
background: url('image.png') no-repeat;
text-indent: -9999;
}
</style>
<div id="container">
<img src="image.png" alt="image to be replaced" />
</div>
As others said, it's really not good practice, but it works. Only tested in Chrome.
I want to replace that image in the img tag using only css.
Not that I know of, no. An image's src attribute can't be altered from CSS.
I also can't think of a workaround to do this, not even a terribly kludgy one. You can of course assign a background-image to the image element, but the actual image will always be in front of it,
You would have to have the original HTML altered in a way so the original button is a <button> element with a background-image property - that you can override using CSS.
Restricting access to the HTML but allowing access to edit CSS is odd practice. Both elements go hand in hand to produce the page.
Anyway, you could try removing or changing the name of "btn_next.png" so that it doesnt display when called from "src" and make the CSS the following:
#btn_next {
background: url('image.png') no-repeat;
display:block;
width:150px; /* for example */
height:30px; /* for example */
}
If that doesnt work, the only other way would be to hide the input button and replace the li row with a background image but then the button will cease to work. Unless you have access to an already included javascript file, then you can look at other solutions.