I'm trying to make a dashboard frame (in Bootstrap 5, but I don't think it makes any difference) that works like in these two pictures:
This is basically my current situation:
<html>
<body>
<div class="pretoolbar">pretoolbar (non-essential information, to be hidden when scrolling)
</div>
<div class="sticky-toolbar"> sticky toolbar</div>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="sidebar col-3">
[tall sidebar content]
</div>
<main class="col-9">
[also tall content]
</main>
</div>
<body>
</html>
CSS:
.pretoolbar{
background-color: #555;
color:white;
height:32px;
}
.sticky-toolbar{
background-color: black;
color:white;
height:56px;
position:sticky;
top:0;
}
.sidebar{
background-color: white;
position: sticky;
top: 56px;
overflow: hidden auto;
max-height: calc(100vh - 56px);
height: 100%;
}
I'm trying several approaches but it doesn't seem working. What I'm trying is of course position: sticky on the main sticky toolbar and on the sidebar. But due to the different available vertical space (scrolled-top vs scrolled-middle), after declaring a height for the sidebar (calc(100vh - 56px), 56px is the height of the toolbar) it results in the bottom part of the sidebar and its scrollbar to fall out of the viewport bottom. I'm considering flexbox, position:fixed, position:absolute... cannot find a way to get it through.
I also discovered a strange behavior (in Chrome at least) when you place a position:sticky inside a position:fixed
My goal would be to avoid JavaScript, I basically need a sidebar that changes its height after the sticky-state of the toolbar and sticky searchbox. (Or, to say it in other words, the top-edge of the sidebar should behave like position:sticky while the bottom-edge should behave like position:fixed;bottom:0).
Can you think of a way of achieving this without using JavaScript?
Please let me know if I am understanding your situation. First I would suggest getting rid off of the *pre-toolbar bar. Otherwise, the desired behavior is impossible without js. And since you mentioned the information there is not essential, you can put it anywhere.
However, if you still want it to be on top, then sticky of position fixed the toolbar and the sidebar. Do not use calc() It is better to use height 100vh and put it behind the toolbar so it seems to be shorter. Then, place a pre-toolbar on top (z-index) of your toolbar and animated it to disappear after some seconds.
Here is a codepen https://codepen.io/oscontrerasn/pen/WNpxJwV
I'm running foundation 5 and using magellan, and try as i might it consistently breaks out of the grid. I'm new to this, any insight would be helpful. When I first load the page, it is positioned correctly inside the grid. As I scroll down, the magellan menu jumps to the left and fills the entire width of the page. I scroll up again, and it does not change (meaning it is still all the way to the left) even though it "unsticks" itself from the top of the browser window. I currently only have it on my localhost testserver. I'm seeing the same problem on firefox and chrome for windows.
Here is my code:
<div class="row">
<div class="large-10" column>
<div data-magellan-expedition="fixed">
<dl class="sub-nav">
<dd data-magellan-arrival="arrival">
Arrival
</dd>
<dd data-magellan-arrival="destination">
Destination
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="large-2" column>nothing</div>
<div class="large-10" column>
<a name="arrival"></a>
<span data-magellan-destination="arrival">Arrival</span>
<a name="destination"></a>
<span data-magellan-destination="destination">DEstination</span>
</div>
<div class="large-2" column>nothing</div>
</div> <!--closes div class row-->
I'd really appreciate any insight. I've been driving myself crazy with this for way too long. It must be possible - on the docs page it seems magellan stays correctly in the middle column of the grid: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/magellan.html
On the docs a left: auto !important has been set for the .fixed class. Even when applying that, your issue is still related to: Fixed position but relative to container (and Position Fixed width 100%).
A possible fix (or something which may help) will be using the following CSS for the large grid:
.fixed {
background-color:transparent;
position: fixed;
left: 50%;
top: 0%;
transform: translateX(calc(-41.66% + 30px));
}
.fixed .sub-nav {
background-color:white;
margin-right: calc(41.66% + 30px);
padding: 15px;
}
I have a dropdown with content. I'm trying to make the content align at 0px at the left of the screen. No matter what I try, it still remains aligned within its parent container.
Since the dropdowns are centred in the browser, I'm having difficulty getting it work go where I want.
http://jsfiddle.net/XkuHy/2/
<div id="sticky">
<div id="nav">
<div class="logo">logo</div>
<span class="n list">browse</span>
<span class="n list">search</span>
<div class="n drop">
<span>My Account</span>
<div>
hello, world!
</div>
</div>
</div>
NOTE: CSS is not my strong suit.
NOTE 2: StackOverflow kept banging on about needed code and not just a link to jsFiddle - not sure why so ignore the code dumped as you can see it in the fiddle.
The .content box is being positioned relative to its parent, the .n.drop div because it has a relative positioning. If you remove the relative positioning from the .n.drop element you will find the .content element to position itself about where you want it. You may need to also add a margin-top: 16px; to the .content element to make it clear the menu.
You can see the updated demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/XkuHy/14/
When you make its margin to 0px. It is going to 0px but with respect to its parent. So you can try margin of negative values to its css:
margin-left:-205%;
like this: http://jsfiddle.net/XkuHy/13/
or
left: -345px;
like this: http://jsfiddle.net/XkuHy/13/
But both of them has cross browser comparability issue.
I have solved this issue by adding this to css, where "hello world" has a class name of "dropmenu":
.drop:hover .dropmenu{
position: fixed;
top: 100px;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height:100px;
padding:0;
margin:0;
z-index:998;
background-color:white;
}
Surprise! surprise! I think it works! Check out:
http://jsfiddle.net/XkuHy/10/
I would like a CSS hover affect for multiple links that affect the same image. If you look at this example site I have Repair, Sales, Upgrades and Data Recovery links. When you hover over any one of them I would like the image to their left to change. You can hover over the image currently there to see what I mean.
website: http://ctuchicago.squarespace.com/
I would create a box that contains the image and all of the links. Then when the box is hovered over the image will change. This doesn't get you exactly what you want - which is only hovering over the link changes the image, but I think it is close enough and far easier.
http://jsfiddle.net/mrtsherman/D5ZRs/
div:hover img { background: url('blah'); }
<div>
<img src="" />
Repair
Sales
</div>
Put the image inside the a tag. Then use position: relative to position the image...
for example
a img{
position: relative;
left: -50px;
}
This seems to work... partially XD
<div class="frontdiv fblankd">
<a href="/audio-video" id="hav" style="width: auto;">
<div style="
height: 80px;
margin-left: 81px;
background: white;
color: black;
">
<h3>AUDIO / VIDEO</h3>
<p>Music Server, Home Theatre, Zone Systems, Universal Remote Control</p>
</div>
</a>
</div>
The basic idea is to have your content in the a tag (like ever body has been saying).
What I've done with the styling is set the anchor to width:auto and wrapped the content in a div. this div I then gave a height of 80px, left margin of 81px, background of white and font color of black.
Wrap the <p>, and <h3> tags inside the <a> tags.
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 ;-)