Centered element with link can be clicked on either side - css

I have a <button> element which has been centered into the middle of the page with an anchor tag wrapped around it like seen in this JSFiddle.
From the JSFiddle if you hover your mouse on either side of the button the link is active. I could prevent this by wrapping it around a <div> and then apply this to the <div>:
div {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
However is there a better solution to this as in my case, I have many buttons like this and it would take long to apply? Thanks.

Are you referring to the space within the button, besides the "A Button" text, because I don't see any clickable area outside of the button. If so, I think that's just a function of the button tag. When I hover over the button, it highlights blue but my cursor doesn't change, like it should when I hover over a link.
If you throw the a href tag within the button, you'll get the cursor to change when you hover over the button's text. However, the button will still highlight button when you cursor is over the empty space within the button.
Also, what are you using the links for? Instead of hyperlinking the button, you might want to use the URL attribute within the button tag, if you're trying to use the button to send information somewhere.

The best solution to this was to just wrap the button with a form like so:
<form action="link-to-page-here">
<button>Button</button>
</form>
Using this, I can still center the button using:
button {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
But avoiding the link being clickable on the row of the button.

You shouldn't put a <button> inside of an <a> tag
just use the <button></button> and use the same style you've written for the button tag, so it should be something like that:
button {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
If you have to use the wrong markup and keep the button inside the <a> tag
just wrap the a tag inside a div tag and change styles to the following
<div>
<a href="">
<button>A Button</button>
</a>
</div>
and styles:
a{
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
div{
text-align: center;
}
button{
}

Related

Popout window after clicking a link

Like this:
http://i.imgur.com/homRkRv.png
How can I do it? I've looked up online and only managed to create a popout window with pure CSS but I wasn't able to click around which is something that I don't want.
You can implements your css with focus
a.button {
background: #000;
display:block
}
a.button div {
display:none;
}
a.button:focus div {
display:block
}
Only for this example:
<a class="button" href="#">Clickme
<div>Content hidden</div>
<a>
Last part, Click on link, then its will to show div.
You can add more style to div, such as position absolute, background etc.

Make <li> list images clickable and maintain formatting

I am making a tree control using <ul>. Clicking on an item expands or collapses the node.
List images (bullets) are not clickable, so the solution seems to be to hide them and just show my own image. The problem with this is that when an item wraps to the next line, the default wrapping indent behavior of a list item is lost.
How can I achieve what I want in CSS?
There's no need to replace your bullets with images. When you bind the onclick event of an li to some function, clicking the bullet seems to fire it as well. To bind the onclick of the bullet to a different function, wrap li text content in a span and assign a different onclick event; something like:
$("li").click(function() {
alert("I'm a bullet! Glee's awesome!");
});
$("li span").click(function(event) {
alert("I'm some text! Glee's awesome!");
event.stopPropagation(); //make sure the li onclick isn't fired
});
And a little working demo: little link.
Hope that helped!
Bullets in front of an <li> tag seem perfectly clickable to me here: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/5xzNR/ so I think you can just allow your regular <li> tags to be clickable.
You can use this:
li {
padding-left: 1em;
text-indent: -1em;
}
Can also be
#myDiv {
padding-left: 1em;
text-indent: -1em;
}
This will indent after the first line of your list/div.
You may also need to add a display: block; to the element if it doesn't work out. Haven't tested it but give it a shot.

applying css to <html:link> tags

I'm starting out in using struts and I'm finding difficulty in applying my css on the tags.
<html:link action="LoginLink" styleClass="loginButton"/>
Basically I'd want to apply a button image on a link which goes to a login page.
I've used this method successfully in submit buttons for forms and I thought that the same could apply to the links, however it was not displaying properly.
<html:submit styleClass="submitButton" value=" " ></html:submit>
To add, I am able to see the top part of my button image when I place some text on the link like for example:
<html:link action="LoginLink" styleClass="loginButton" >Some text here</html:link>
Are there any alternative tags that I am able to use or is there any way to set the height and width (in pixels) of the link tag so that the button can appear normally?
also here is the css for the loginButton for reference:
.loginButton {
border:none;
background:url('../images/adminbutton.png');
height: 59px;
width: 138px;
}.loginButton:hover {
background:url('../images/adminbutton2.png');
}.loginButton:active {
position:relative;
top:1px;
}
Try to add this property
display: block;
to .loginButton

Show / hide div on click with CSS

I have a menu and three hidden divs that show up depending on what option the user selects. I would like to show / hide them on click using only CSS. I have it working with jquery right now but I want it to be accessible with js disabled. Somebody here provided this code for someone else but it only works with div:hover or div:active, when I change it to div:visited it doesn't work. Would I need to add something or perhaps this isn't the right way to do it? I appreciate any help :)
The thing is my client wants this particular divs to slide/fade when the menu is selected, but I still want them to display correctly with javascript turned off. Maybe z-index could do the trick...?
For a CSS-only solution, try using the checkbox hack. Basically, the idea is to use a checkbox and assign different styles based on whether the box is checked or not used the :checked pseudo selector. The checkbox can be hidden, if need be, by attaching it to a label.
link to dabblet (not mine): http://dabblet.com/gist/1506530
link to CSS Tricks article: http://css-tricks.com/the-checkbox-hack/
This can be achieved by attaching a "tabindex" to an element. This will make that element "clickable". You can then use :focus to select your hidden div as follows...
.clicker {
width:100px;
height:100px;
background-color:blue;
outline:none;
cursor:pointer;
}
.hiddendiv{
display:none;
height:200px;
background-color:green;
}
.clicker:focus + .hiddendiv{
display:block;
}
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div class="clicker" tabindex="1">Click me</div>
<div class="hiddendiv"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The + selector will select the nearest element AFTER the "clicker" div. You can use other selectors but I believe there is no current way to select an element that is not a sibling or child.
Although a bit unstandard, a possible solution is to contain the content you want to show/hide inside the <a> so it can be reachable through CSS:
http://jsfiddle.net/Jdrdh/2/
a .hidden {
visibility: hidden;
}
a:visited .hidden {
visibility: visible;
}
<div id="container">
<a href="#">
A
<div class="hidden">hidden content</div>
</a>
</div>
Fiddle to your heart's content
HTML
<div>
<a tabindex="1" class="testA">Test A</a> | <a tabindex="2" class="testB">Test B</a>
<div class="hiddendiv" id="testA">1</div>
<div class="hiddendiv" id="testB">2</div>
</div>
CSS
.hiddendiv {display: none; }
.testA:focus ~ #testA {display: block; }
.testB:focus ~ #testB {display: block; }
Benefits
You can put your menu links horizontally = one after the other in HTML code, and then you can put all the content one after another in the HTML code, after the menu.
In other words - other solutions offer an accordion approach where you click a link and the content appears immediately after the link. The next link then appears after that content.
With this approach you don't get the accordion effect. Rather, all links remain in a fixed position and clicking any link simply updates the displayed content. There is also no limitation on content height.
How it works
In your HTML, you first have a DIV. Everything else sits inside this DIV. This is important - it means every element in your solution (in this case, A for links, and DIV for content), is a sibling to every other element.
Secondly, the anchor tags (A) have a tabindex property. This makes them clickable and therefore they can get focus. We need that for the CSS to work. These could equally be DIVs but I like using A for links - and they'll be styled like my other anchors.
Third, each menu item has a unique class name. This is so that in the CSS we can identify each menu item individually.
Fourth, every content item is a DIV, and has the class="hiddendiv". However each each content item has a unique id.
In your CSS, we set all .hiddendiv elements to display:none; - that is, we hide them all.
Secondly, for each menu item we have a line of CSS. This means if you add more menu items (ie. and more hidden content), you will have to update your CSS, yes.
Third, the CSS is saying that when .testA gets focus (.testA:focus) then the corresponding DIV, identified by ID (#testA) should be displayed.
Last, when I just said "the corresponding DIV", the trick here is the tilde character (~) - this selector will select a sibling element, and it does not have to be the very next element, that matches the selector which, in this case, is the unique ID value (#testA).
It is this tilde that makes this solution different than others offered and this lets you simply update some "display panel" with different content, based on clicking one of those links, and you are not as constrained when it comes to where/how you organise your HTML. All you need, though, is to ensure your hidden DIVs are contained within the same parent element as your clickable links.
Season to taste.
In 2022 you can do this with just HTML by using the details element. A summary or label must be provided using the summary element. details is supported by all major browsers.
<details>
<summary>Click Here for more info</summary>
Here is the extra info you were looking for.
</details>
HTML
<input type="text" value="CLICK TO SHOW CONTENT">
<div id="content">
and the content will show.
</div>
CSS
#content {
display: none;
}
input[type="text"]{
color: transparent;
text-shadow: 0 0 0 #000;
padding: 6px 12px;
width: 150px;
cursor: pointer;
}
input[type="text"]:focus{
outline: none;
}
input:focus + div#content {
display: block;
}
<input type="text" value="CLICK TO SHOW CONTENT">
<div id="content">
and the content will show.
</div>
A little hack-ish but it works. Note that the label tag can be placed any where. The key parts are:
The css input:checked+div selects the div immediately next to/after the input
The label for said checkbox (or hey leave out the label and just have the checkbox)
display:none hides stuff
Code:
<head>
<style>
#sidebar {height:100%; background:blue; width:200px; clear:none; float:left;}
#content {height:100%; background:green; width:400px; clear:none; float:left;}
label {background:yellow;float:left;}
input{display:none;}
input:checked+#sidebar{display:none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<label for="hider">Hide</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="hider">
<div id="sidebar">foo</div>
<div id="content">hello</div>
</div>
</body>
EDIT: Sorry could have read the question better.
One could also use css3 elements to create the slide/fade effect. I am not familiar enough with them to be much help with that aspect but they do exist. Browser support is iffy though.
You could combine the above effect with javascript to use fancy transitions and still have a fall back. jquery has a css method to override the above and slide and fade for transitions.
Tilda(~) mean some sibling after; not next sibling like plus(+).
[key="value"] is an attribute selector.
Radio buttons must have same name
To string tabs together one could use:
<html>
<head>
<style>
input[value="1"]:checked ~ div[id="1"]{
display:none;
}
input[value="2"]:checked ~ div[id="2"]{
display:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<input type="radio" name="hider" value="1">
<input type="radio" name="hider" value="2">
<div id="1">div 1</div>
<div id="2">div 2</div>
</body>
</html>
You could do this with the CSS3 :target selector.
menu:hover block {
visibility: visible;
}
block:target {
visibility:hidden;
}
You're going to have to either use JS or write a function/method in whatever non-markup language you're using to do this. For instance you could write something that will save the status to a cookie or session variable then check for it on page load. If you want to do it without reloading the page then JS is going to be your only option.
if 'focus' works for you (i.e. stay visible while element has focus after click) then see this existing SO answer:
Hide Show content-list with only CSS, no javascript used
You can find <div> by id, look at it's style.display property and toggle it from none to block and vice versa.
function showDiv(Div) {
var x = document.getElementById(Div);
if(x.style.display=="none") {
x.style.display = "block";
} else {
x.style.display = "none";
}
}
<div id="welcomeDiv" style="display:none;" class="answer_list">WELCOME</div>
<input type="button" name="answer" value="Show Div" onclick="showDiv('welcomeDiv')" />
With this method, when you click on Nav Dropdown elements it will NOT disappear, unlike plain :focus solution.
key is:
tabindex in parent element
parentDiv:focus-within hiddenDiv { display: block;}
it will work with both: display and visibility css;
HTML code:
<div className="DevNavBar dbb">
{/* MAKE SURE TO ADD TABINDEX TO PARENT ELEMENT, OTHERWISE FAILS */}
<div className="DevNavBar_Item1 drr" tabIndex="0">
item1
<div className="DevNavBar_Item1_HiddenMenu dgg">
<ul>
<li>blah1</li>
<li>blah2</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS code:
.DevNavBar {
padding: 40px;
}
.DevNavBar_Item1 {
padding: 20px;
width: fit-content;
cursor: pointer;
position: relative;
}
.DevNavBar_Item1:hover {
color: red;
}
.DevNavBar_Item1_HiddenMenu {
display: none;
position: absolute;
padding: 10px;
background-color: white;
z-index: 10;
left: 0;
top: 70px;
}
.DevNavBar_Item1:focus {
color: red; // this is so that when Nav Item is opened, color stays red
}
.DevNavBar_Item1:focus-within .DevNavBar_Item1_HiddenMenu {
display: block;
color: black; // this is to remove Bubbling, otherwise it will be RED, like the hover effect
}
Here is Video Demo I created on my youtube channel (note: this is my youtube channel, so I am affiliated to that channel), the link is for 'show and tell' purposes: https://youtu.be/QMqcZjmghf4
CSS does not have an onlclick event handler. You have to use Javascript.
See more info here on CSS Pseudo-classes: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp
a:link {color:#FF0000;} /* unvisited link - link is untouched */
a:visited {color:#00FF00;} /* visited link - user has already been to this page */
a:hover {color:#FF00FF;} /* mouse over link - user is hovering over the link with the mouse or has selected it with the keyboard */
a:active {color:#0000FF;} /* selected link - the user has clicked the link and the browser is loading the new page */

applying css to dijit button

I have the following HTML and CSS:
<button id="myBtn" dojoType="dijit.form.Button">Testing</button>
#myBtn {
margin-left: 100px;
}
The CSS is supposed to push the button in 100px. But since dijit applies some extra layers of HTML around the button, the button gets a 100px padding.
JSbin to show the problem
edit: Found one (not IE6-compatible) solution:
[widgetid=myBtn] { margin-left: 100px; }
see above :-) Surround with a DIV and use that DIV in your static CSS.
I think decorating with HTML may actually be a simpler solution than trying to bake more into the widget or the widget's template.
Instead of applying the style by ID, do it through a class.
Stylesheet:
.myBtn { margin-left: 100px; }
Code:
<button class="myBtn" dojoType="dijit.form.Button" id="myBtn">Testing</button>
http://jsbin.com/ejoma/2
In this case you should not add the margin-left to the button itselft but to the additional HTML araound the button that is created. Try this:
.dijitLeft{
margin-left: 100px;
}
But this will indeed add a margin to every button. If you don't want that, add the margin to the parent span using JavaScript after the additional HTML was created.
Inline style is working.
<button id="myBtn" dojoType="dijit.form.Button" style="margin-left:100px">Testing</button>

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