Is there a way to make the entire area of a <div> be a proper link?
Right now I'm doing this with javascript using the onclick but this is not good since if I middle click it (on firefox) it doesn't open at all
Your best choice would probably be to turn a link into a block element.
CSS:
#mylink { display: block; }
HTML:
Some Content
What do you have inside the DIV? If it's just text and other inline elements, you can just do:
<div>....</div>
Related
I have some text where the inline styling is as follows:
<a style="margin-left:87px;color:white;">3mm</a>
For some reason, it's being underlined on hover. It looks like this:
The containing div is:
<div class="next-slide-container">
Poke ID<br>
Choose your Pokemon<br>
Details<br>
Size<br>
</div>
<div class="next-slide-container" style="margin-top:-7px">
<a style="margin-left:87px;color:white;">3mm</a>
<img class="texture-icon" role="button" src="Resources/Cutups/Texture_Icons/Pikachu.png">
</div>
I tried recreating it with a JSFiddle but I cannot get the text to underline is JSFiddle, even though the css for the container is not different than my own source code. Additionally, the text inside the first div class next-slide-container, like "Choose your Pokemon", does not highlight in my code. It's only just "3mm"; so it would seem that the inline styling is the problem? Thanks.
By default, most browsers set anchor tags <a> to have the css text-decoration: underline; If you want to remove any browser default underlining you need to add text-decoration: none; the the css for anchor tags.
Basically... add this to your CSS file or area.
a { text-decoration: none; }
Some browsers also add a default outline or pseudo "glow" to anchor tags (Mozilla).
If you want that to also go away, you would add this to your css for anchor tags:
a { text-decoration: none; outline: none; }
Valid HTML would mean you need to add either an href= value or a name= value to the anchor tag. Without one of these, the a tag is invalid.
In your fiddle, this invalid anchor tag may be the reason you aren't seeing the same thing as in your browser. Add href="#" to the anchor tag in your fiddle and you'll see the same issue. jsFiddle isn't as forgiving with improper markup the way browsers can be. That's kind of the purpose of jsFiddle. Browsers will guess at what is meant sometimes, jsFiddle really doesn't.
If you merely want to style the text, you can use <p>, <span>, <div>, <h1>, etc. tags. You don't need an anchor tag simply to style text.
I have a widget on my website which generates content which looks like this:
<div class="wrapper">
some title
<p>some content</p>
</div>
I want to give the title text padding and the <p> padding
I already tried this:
.wrapper > * {padding:15px;}
But that doesnt apply to the plain text. Is there some sort of selector for plain text?
I also created a fiddle to visualize it.
http://jsfiddle.net/62v59s3j/
If I understood correctly, think you should apply padding to your wrapper, and remove left and right padding from the <p>
.wrapper > p {
padding:15px 0px;
}
.wrapper {
border:1px solid #ddd;
padding:15px;
}
jsFiddle
No.
With a couple of very limited exceptions (like :first-letter), CSS only allows you to select elements.
If you want a block to have a title, then it should probably be a heading (<h1> et al), and that would give you an element to select. For that matter the block may be better represented as a <section> rather than a <div>.
Let your web browser help you in developing.
Right click on the element and select inspect element from the context menu
In the source code, right on the element and from the context menu select copy selector, paste in your css
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Make a div into a link
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I want to make it so that a whole div is clickable and links to another page when clicked without JavaScript and with valid code/markup.
If I have this which is what I want the result to do -
<a href="#">
<div>This is a link</div>
</a>
The W3C validator says that block elements shouldn't be placed inside an inline element. Is there a better way to do this?
It is possible to make a link fill the entire div which gives the appearance of making the div clickable.
CSS:
#my-div {
background-color: #f00;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
}
a.fill-div {
display: block;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
text-decoration: none;
}
HTML:
<div id="my-div">
</div>
<div onclick="location.href='#';" style="cursor: pointer;">
</div>
a whole div links to another page when clicked without javascript and
with valid code, is this possible?
Pedantic answer: No.
As you've already put on another comment, it's invalid to nest a div inside an a tag.
However, there's nothing preventing you from making your a tag behave very similarly to a div, with the exception that you cannot nest other block tags inside it. If it suits your markup, set display:block on your a tag and size / float it however you like.
If you renege on your question's premise that you need to avoid javascript, as others have pointed our you can use the onClick event handler. jQuery is a popular choice for making this easy and maintainable.
Update:
In HTML5, placing a <div> inside an <a> is valid.
See http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/a.html#a-changes (thanks Damien)
Without JS, I am doing it like this:
My HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="sometext">Some text here</div>
<div class="someothertext">Some other text here</div>
text of my link
</div>
My CSS:
.container{
position: relative;
}
.container.a{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-indent: -9999px; //these two lines are to hide my actual link text.
overflow: hidden; //these two lines are to hide my actual link text.
}
My solution without JavaScript/images. Only CSS and HTML. It works in all browsers.
HTML:
<a class="add_to_cart" href="https://www.example.com" title="Add to Cart!">
buy now<br />free shipping<br />no further costs
</a>
CSS:
.add_to_cart:hover {
background-color:#FF9933;
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
.add_to_cart {
cursor:pointer;
background-color:#EC5500;
display:block;
text-align:center;
margin-top:8px;
width:90px;
height:31px;
border-radius:5px;
border-width:1px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#E70000;
}
Nesting block level elements in anchors is not invalid anymore in HTML5. See http://html5doctor.com/block-level-links-in-html-5/ and http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-a-element.html.
I'm not saying you should use it, but in HTML5 it's fine to use <div></div>.
The accepted answer is otherwise the best one. Using JavaScript like others suggested is also bad because it would make the "link" inaccessible (to users without JavaScript, which includes search engines and others).
jQuery would allow you to do that.
Look up the click() function:
http://api.jquery.com/click/
Example:
$('#yourDIV').click(function() {
alert('You clicked the DIV.');
});
Well you could either add <a></a> tags and place the div inside it, adding an href if you want the div to act as a link. Or else just use Javascript and define an 'OnClick' function. But from the limited information provided, it's a bit hard to determine what the context of your problem is.
.clickable {
cursor:pointer;
}
Something like this?
<div onclick="alert('test');">
</div>
AFAIK you will need at least a little bit of JavaScript...
I would suggest to use jQuery.
You can include this library in one line. And then you can access your div with
$('div').click(function(){
// do stuff here
});
and respond to the click event.
we are using like this
<label for="1">
<div class="options">
<input type="radio" name="mem" id="1" value="1" checked="checked"/>option one
</div>
</label>
<label for="2">
<div class="options">
<input type="radio" name="mem" id="2" value="1" checked="checked"/>option two
</div></label>
using
<label for="1">
tag and catching is with
id=1
hope this helps.
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>
I am getting unexpected results when using vertical-align on an image with accompanying text. If the text is wider than the container, it wraps UNDER the image like this, instead of simply wrapping to the next line:
alt text http://preview.moveable.com/jm/verticalalign.png
My HTML is simple:
<ul>
<li><img .../> some text </li>
...
</ul>
I have a height and overflow-y:scroll on the UL (likely not relevant)
I have a height set on the LI that is large enough for the placeholder image plus spacing.
I have vertical-align:middle on the image to get the text in the right place, almost
The rest is just margins and borders
Am am NOT using floats
How can I get the text to wrap properly, perferably without more markup?
If the image is static i would use a background image on the li and then simply add left padding to allow for the correct spacing
li {
background: url(/images/foo.jpg) center left no-repeat;
padding-left: barpx;
}
you could also use a margin on the li to allow for spacing to the left of the image inside the ul
if the images are different i would simply apply a class to each li to distinguish the difference
edit for seo friendlyness:
add the images into the markup and then hide them with your stylesheet so the user only sees the image set with background image, Google bots ignore stylesheets so will be served the image in the markup.
li img {
display:none
}
As #graphicdivine pointed out, there are two ways to interpret "properly." If you want things to fill up all the space around the image, I would do what he suggested: use float: left; on the image.
If, instead, you wanted to have a vertical block of text next to the image, you could apply the following:
<li style="display: table-row;">
<img src="..." style="vertical-align: middle; display: table-cell;" />
<span style="display: table-cell;">...</span>
</li>
Same disclaimer as before, though: this is no good in IE. Also, it breaks your "no more markup" rule, though I'm not sure how you wanted to achieve a different result without making changes. Perhaps I didn't understand you correctly.
Seems to me you could float the image left.