I'm using jQuery to add a Class to a few elements.
I'm not new to adding classes, nor removing them. But I'm still somewhat intermediate with styles and any flexibility styles can perform to single elements.
Here's what's going on:
I have 2 Divs that I'm affecting with jQuery:
<div id="columnleft">stuff in here</div>
<div id="columncenter">bigger stuff in here</div>
In a nutshell, column left is about 155px wide, while columncenter is positioned relative to columnleft, with a margin-left of 162px
Here's my styles:
<style>
#columnleft {
float:left;
position:relative;
text-align:left;
width:155px;
}
#columncenter {
position:relative;
padding-bottom:50px
margin:0;
margin-left:162px;
}
</style>
I'm basically toggling these 2 divs with the jQuery examples below:
So far I've gotten these 2 separate instances to work:
$("#columnleft").hide();
$("#columncenter").css("margin","0px");
then........
$("#columnleft").show();
$("#columncenter").css("margin-left","162px");
Though this works, I'm not quite satisfied.
I'd prefer to create a class or two that I can use to toggle the hiding of columnleft, while also changing the margin-left at the same time.
It's all fine with the example above, when I'm only using jQuery. But there are times when a page loads, and the columnleft is meant to be hidden, and columncenter is meant to be expanded, from the beginning. Would be nice to not need jQuery to enter the scene at those moments.
All I could come up with is:
<style>
.disappear { display:none; }
.maximize { margin:0px; margin-left:0px; }
</style>
When the page loads:
<div id="columnleft" class="disappear">stuff in here</div>
<div id="columncenter" class="maximize">bigger stuff in here</div>
it seems that columncenter is ignored. (columnleft indeed does disappear)
Also, toggling with jquery, the same result occurs.
Column Center hates me!
Does anyone see where I'm missing the mark?
View JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/tuanderful/bTZq8/
What if you had another div that contains both #columnleft and #columncenter, and has a class of .hide-left or .show-left:
<div class="hide-left">
<div id="columnleft">stuff in here</div>
<div id="columncenter">bigger stuff in here</div>
</div>
Then add the following CSS:
.show-left #columnleft {
display: block;
}
.show-left #columncenter {
margin-left: 162px;
}
.hide-left #columnleft {
display: none;
}
.hide-left #columncenter {
margin-left: 0;
}
You can update your jQuery to simply toggle the .hide-left or .show-left classes on the parent container.
What I did here is similar to adding .disappear and .maximize styling, but I added a bit of context around the two columns. The neat thing is that all of the styling is handled purely by CSS - when you want to show or hide your sidebar, you only need JavaScript to update the state of the container; that is, change the class in the container from hide to show or vice versa.
You need to put !important on the css styling.
.maximize {
margin-left: 0px !important;
}
That makes it so that it overrides any other styling of the same kind. Check it out here.
There is an order of importance in CSS. An id # is considered more important than a class . (there can only be one id and many classes after all). So if you are trying to override an id with a class, you need to use !important.
each type of selector in css is weighted differently id being higher than classes and classes being higher than objects
to fix your problem make the selector as such
#columncenter.maximize
this will overwrite the rule before it
don't use !important while it might work now it can be hard to find out why something is being overridden later on
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I have CSS like this
.div1 img {
// ...
}
.myimg {
// ...
}
and my HTML code is like this,
<div class="div1">
...
<img src="..." class="myimg"> // image html
...
</div>
The css formatting defined in .div1 img is obviously applied to the image html code. However, I actually don't want it happen. What can I do to not to have '.div1 img' effects on that image html code? I don't want to modify the content of div1 img or related html code because it is used in other places already (and it is a template code that I don't want to mess with).
P.S. I cannot remove or modify <div class="div1"> either because there is other template code around.
Thanks.
You have two options:
You can explicitly override all of the styling defined in .div1 img with what they should be in .myimg
You can write .div1 img:not(.myimg) for the first rule.
You could do:
.div1 img:not(.myimg) {
// ...
}
:not selector explained here
There is a nice little not selector that would work, but unfortunately it doesn't work in all browsers.
One sure way to do that is redefine all your .div1 styles in your child .mying class so it overrides the parent.
here is a little demo in jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/u6MnN/1/
mess around with it and see what's best for you.
you need to neutralize all those stylings you are giving to ".div1 img" for example if you say "width:100px" there you need to say "width:auto" in the other one.
Although if you have lots of rules in the first set it would be very dirty this way and you need to change your layout.
If you have img tags inside a container div with class .div1 they will of course get the styling you define in .div1 img, but if you want lets say 2 images out of 8 in that div to have another style (which i believe is why you made class .myimg), you need to put !important after the defined stylings in .myimg like so:
.div1 img
{
height: 125px;
width: 125px;
}
.myimg
{
height: 150px !important;
width: 150px !important;
}
This is only if you are NOT using CSS 3.0
Is it possible to make a div invisible without commenting it out? If so, how?
You need to hide that with CSS:
div { /* this will hide all divs on the page */
display:none;
}
If it is a particular div with certain class or id, you can hide it like:
<div class="div_class_name">Some Content</div>
CSS:
div.div_class_name { /* this will hide div with class div_class_name */
display:none;
}
Or
<div id="div_id_name">Some Content</div>
CSS:
div#div_id_name { /* this will hide div with id div_id_name */
display:none;
}
Note: You need to wrap CSS tyles in between <style type="text/css"></style> tags, example:
<style type="text/css">
div#div_id_name {
display:none;
}
</style>
More Information :)
You can do this by inline style
<div style="display:none"></div>
or by defining CSS Style like
In css add
.HideableDiv{display:none;}
and in your HTML write
<div class="HideableDiv" ></div>
Its Easy. The only thing you need is, adding a style to it, like following example shows:
CSS:
<style type="text/css">
div.myInvisibleDiv {
overflow: hidden;
visibility: hidden;
height: 0;
width: 0;
}
</style>
HTML:
<div class="myInvisibleDiv"><p>My invisible content</p></div>
This div, and it content does definitely not show, and it wont disturb surrounding elements.
if you want it to be essentially gone from your layout:
.element_class {
display:none;
}
if you want to just make it invisible (but still keeping it's space seemingly empty)
.element_class {
visibility: hidden;
}
and then your element (if a div) would look like this:
<div class="element_class"></div>
basically anything you add the class="element_class" to will be either invisible or completely hidden.
position: absolute;
left: -99999px; /* big number */
will make the content accessible to most screen readers but will render the element off-screen.
May be, its not the required solution, but you can tackle this kind of issues by these little tricks.
You can use jQuery to achieve the solution.
If you want to totally hide/show the div, then you can use:
$('#my_element').show()
$('#my_element').hide()
Or if you want that your div become invisible and its still existing in the page, then you can use efficient trick:
$('#my_element').css('opacity', '0.0'); // invisible Maximum
$('#my_element').css('opacity', '1.0'); // visible maximum
I have a <div> block with some fancy visual content that I don't want to change. I want to make it a clickable link.
I'm looking for something like <div> … </div>, but that is valid XHTML 1.1.
Came here in the hope of finding a better solution that mine, but I don't like any of the ones on offer here. I think some of you have misunderstood the question. The OP wants to make a div full of content behave like a link. One example of this would be facebook ads - if you look, they're actually proper markup.
For me the no-nos are: javascript (shouldn't be needed just for a link, and very bad SEO/accessibility); invalid HTML.
In essence it's this:
Build your panel using normal CSS techniques and valid HTML.
Somewhere in there put a link that you want to be the default link if the user clicks on the panel (you can have other links too).
Inside that link, put an empty span tag (<span></span>, not <span /> - thanks #Campey)
give the panel position:relative
apply the following CSS to the empty span:
{
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
top:0;
left: 0;
z-index: 1;
/* fixes overlap error in IE7/8,
make sure you have an empty gif */
background-image: url('empty.gif');
}
It will now cover the panel, and as it's inside an <A> tag, it's a clickable link
give any other links inside the panel position:relative and a suitable z-index (>1) to bring them in front of the default span link
You can't make the div a link itself, but you can make an <a> tag act as a block, the same behaviour a <div> has.
a {
display: block;
}
You can then set the width and height on it.
This is an ancient question, but I thought I'd answer it since everyone here has some crazy solutions. It's actually very very simple...
An anchor tag works like this -
EVERYTHING IN HERE TURNS INTO A LINK
Sooo...
<div id="thediv" />
Although I'm not sure if this is valid. If that's the reasoning behind spoken solutions, then I apologise...
Requires a little javascript.
But, your div would be clickable.
<div onclick="location.href='http://www.example.com';" style="cursor:pointer;"></div>
This option doesn’t require an empty.gif as in the most upvoted answer:
HTML:
<div class="feature">
</div>
CSS:
div.feature {
position: relative;
}
div.feature a {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
text-decoration: none; /* No underlines on the link */
z-index: 10; /* Places the link above everything else in the div */
background-color: #FFF; /* Fix to make div clickable in IE */
opacity: 0; /* Fix to make div clickable in IE */
filter: alpha(opacity=1); /* Fix to make div clickable in IE */
}
As proposed at http://www.digitalskydesign.com/how-to-make-an-entire-div-a-link-using-css/
This is a "valid" solution to achieving what you want.
<style type="text/css">
.myspan {
display: block;
}
</style>
<span class="myspan">text</span>
But most-likely what you really want is to have an <a> tag displayed as a block level element.
I would not advise using JavaScript to simulate a hyperlink as that defeats the purpose of markup validation, which is ultimately to promote accessibility (publishing well-formed documents following proper semantic rules minimizes the possibility the same document will be interpreted differently by different browsers).
It would be preferable to publish a web page that does not validate, but renders and functions properly on all browsers, including ones with JavaScript disabled. Furthermore, using onclick does not provide the semantic information for a screen reader to determine that the div is functioning as a link.
The cleanest way would be to use jQuery with the data-tags introduced in HTML. With this solution you can create a link on every tag you want. First define the tag (e.g. div) with a data-link tag:
<div data-link="http://www.google.at/">Some content in the div which is arbitrary</div>
Now you can style the div however you want. And you have to create also the style for the "link"-alike behavior:
[data-link] {
cursor: pointer;
}
And at last put this jQuery call to the page:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("[data-link]").click(function() {
window.location.href = $(this).attr("data-link");
return false;
});
});
With this code jQuery applys a click listener to every tag on the page which has a "data-link" attribute and redirects to the URL which is in the data-link attribute.
Not sure if this is valid but it worked for me.
The code :
<div style='position:relative;background-color:#000000;width:600px;height:30px;border:solid;'>
<p style='display:inline;color:#ffffff;float:left;'> Whatever </p>
<a style='position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;width:100%;height:100%;display:inline;' href ='#'></a>
</div>
To make thepeer's answer work in IE 7 and forward, it needs a few tweaks.
IE will not honour z-index if the element is has no background-color, so the link will not overlap parts of the containig div that has content, only the blank parts. To fix this a background is added with opacity 0.
For some reason IE7 and various compatibility modes completely fail when using the span in a link approach. However if the link itself is given the style it works just fine.
.blockLink
{
position:absolute;
top:0;
left: 0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
z-index: 1;
background-color:#ffffff;
-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=0)";
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
opacity:0;
}
<div style="position:relative">
<some content>
<a href="somepage" class="blockLink" />
<div>
you could also try by wrapping an anchor, then turning its height and width to be the same with its parent. This works for me perfectly.
<div id="css_ID">
</div>
An option that hasn't been mentioned is using flex. By applying flex: 1 to the a tag, it expands to fit the container.
div {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
display: flex;
border: 1px solid;
}
a {
flex: 1;
}
<div>
Link
</div>
This worked for me:
HTML:
<div>
WHATEVER YOU WANT
<a href="YOUR LINK HERE">
<span class="span-link"></span>
</a>
</div>
CSS:
.span-link {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
top:0;
left: 0;
z-index: 9999;
}
This adds an invisible element (the span), which covers your entire div, and is above your whole div on the z-index, so when someone clicks on that div, the click is essentially intercepted by your invisible "span" layer, which is linked.
Note: If you're already using z-indexes for other elements, just make sure the value of this z-index is higher than anything you want it to rest "on top" of.
why not? use <div></div> works fine in HTML5
This example worked for me:
<div style="position: relative; width:191px; height:83px;">
</div>
This post is Old I know but I just had to fix the same issue because simply writing a normal link tag with the display set to block does not make the whole div clickable in IE. so to fix this issue far simpler than having to use JQuery.
Firstly let us understand why this happens: IE wont make an empty div clickable it only make the text/image within that div/a tag clickable.
Solution: Fill the div with a bakground image and hide it from the viewer.
How?
You ask good questions, now listen up.
add this backround style to the a tag
> "background:url('some_small_image_path')
> -2000px -2000px no-repeat;"
And there you have it the whole div is now clickable. This was the best way for me cause Im using it for my Photo Gallery to let the user clik on one half of the image to move left/right and then place a small image as well just for visual effects. so for me I used the left and right images as background images anyway!
Just have the link in the block and enhance it with jquery. It degrades 100% gracefully for anyone without javascript. Doing this with html isn't really the best solution imho.
For example:
<div id="div_link">
<h2>The Link and Headline</h2>
<p>Some more stuff and maybe another link.</p>
</div>
Then use jquery to make the block clickable (via web designer wall):
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#div_link").click(function(){
window.location=$(this).find("a").attr("href"); return false;
});
});
Then all you have to do is add cursor styles to the div
#div_link:hover {cursor: pointer;}
For bonus points only apply these styles if javascript is enabled by adding a 'js_enabled' class to the div, or the body, or whatever.
This is the best way to do it as used on the BBC website and the Guardian:
I found the technique here:
http://codepen.io/IschaGast/pen/Qjxpxo
heres the html
<div class="highlight block-link">
<h2>I am an example header</h2>
<p>This entire box links somewhere, thanks to faux block links. I am some example text with a custom link that sits within the block</p>
</div>
heres the CSS
/**
* Block Link
*
* A Faux block-level link. Used for when you need a block-level link with
* clickable areas within it as directly nesting a tags breaks things.
*/
.block-link {
position: relative;
}
.block-link a {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
.block-link .block-link__overlay-link {
position: static;
&:before {
bottom: 0;
content: "";
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
z-index: 0;
}
&:hover,
&:focus {
&:before {
background: rgba(255,255,0, .2);
}
}
}
<div> … </div>
Actually you need to include the JavaScript code at the moment,
check this tutorial to do so.
but there is a tricky way to achieve this using a CSS code
you must nest an anchor tag inside your div tag and you must apply this property to it,
display:block;
when you've done that,it will make the whole width area clickable (but within the height of the anchor tag),if you want to cover the whole div area you must set the height of the anchor tag exactly to the height of the div tag,for example:
height:60px;
this is gonna make the whole area clickable,then you can apply text-indent:-9999px to anchor tag to achieve the goal.
this is really tricky and simple and it's just created using CSS code.
here is an example: http://jsfiddle.net/hbirjand/RG8wW/
This work for me:
<div onclick="location.href='page.html';" style="cursor:pointer;">...</div>
You can give a link to your div by following method:
<div class="boxdiv" onClick="window.location.href='https://www.google.co.in/'">google</div>
<style type="text/css">
.boxdiv {
cursor:pointer;
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-color:#FF0000;
color:#fff;
text-align:center;
font:13px/17px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
</style>
You can make surround the element with a href tags or you can use jquery and use
$('').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
//DO SOMETHING
});
This is the simplest way.
Say, this is the div block I want to make clickable:
<div class="inner_headL"></div>
So put a href as follows:
<a href="#">
<div class="inner_headL"></div>
</a>
Just consider the div block as a normal html element and enable the usual a href tag.
It works on FF at least.
I pulled in a variable because some values in my link will change depending on what record the user is coming from.
This worked for testing :
<div onclick="location.href='page.html';" style="cursor:pointer;">...</div>
and this works too :
<div onclick="location.href='<%=Webpage%>';" style="cursor:pointer;">...</div>
While I don't recommend doing this under any circumstance, here is some code that makes a DIV into a link (note: this example uses jQuery and certain markup is removed for simplicity):
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("div[href]").click(function () {
window.location = $(this).attr("href");
});
});
</script>
<div href="http://www.google.com">
My Div Link
</div>
If you can use bootstrap, one simple solution is to use bootstrap .stretched-link.
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/utilities/stretched-link/
Sample Code
<div class="card" style="width: 18rem;">
<img src="..." class="card-img-top" alt="...">
<div class="card-body">
<h5 class="card-title">Card with stretched link</h5>
<p class="card-text">Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.</p>
Go somewhere
</div>
</div>
Soviut's answer was not sufficient for me. I had to use
a { display: inline-flex; }
to remove baseline artifacts, when using just a img in the a.
Enclosing your div inside an anchor tag <a href></a> works like charm:
<a href="">
<div>anything goes here will turn into a link</div>
</a>
My smarty pants answer:
"Evasive answer to: "How to make block level element a hyperlink and validate in XHTML 1.1"
Just use HTML5 DOCTYPE DTD."
Didn't actually hold true for ie7
onclick="location.href='page.html';"
Works IE7-9, Chrome, Safari, Firefox,
if just everything could be this simple...
#logo {background:url(../global_images/csg-4b15a4b83d966.png) no-repeat top left;background-position:0 -825px;float:left;height:48px;position:relative;width:112px}
#logo a {padding-top:48px; display:block;}
<div id="logo"></div>
just think a little outside the box ;-)