I've hit a snag in html and css.
I created a div and wanted to put a logo image on its left and a button link on its right but stubborn css insists on making it move on to separate lines ,I used float:left and float:right.
Would it be something like this? http://jsfiddle.net/QFEKN/
<div>
<img src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c5b9fb1230ea2fe0dc96151cba3098d5?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=1" style='float: left' />
<button>Link</button>
</div>
You mean something like this?
Put a div on your img and button and set width to 100%. Then float your image and your button. I updated the fiddle of thewheat: fiddle
Your CSS
#box
{
width:100%;
}
#logo
{
float:left;
width:50%;
/*padding and Margin according to your need*/
}
#buttons
{
float:right;
width:50%;
}
Your HTML
<div id ="box">
<div id ="logo">
/*your img file here */
</div>
<div id="buttons">
/* Your links/buutons */
</div>`enter code here`
One of the thing you can do here is that you create a table put your logo in first cell of the row and next cell you can add your link, after that you can set float/margin to the positioning you want..hope that helps
You have to use "float property". without it things will not work well in all browsers and then you will get browsers issues too.
Do this , This will work fine.
Check this fiddle
img
{
float:left;
width:100px;
}
button
{
float:right;
width:100px;
}
So, quickly typing this, so sorry if it's kinda vague/confusing.
So, I have a bar I am using css on the bottom of the screen, and I have a divider above it. I try to use height 100% on the divider to get the height to go all the way to the bottom, but it goes under the bar, and I want it not under the bar. How would you guys suggest I do this? I would prefer a css method, but javascript would be fine too.
If you have any padding on that divide, it will be added to the 100%. Thats probably your question.
Something like this maybe:
<style>
.one {
height:100%;
display:block;
}
.two {
padding: 20px;
}
</style>
<div class="one">
<div class="two">
</div>
</div>
I have the page with the structure:
<div id="container">
<div id="header">top menu</div>
<div id="content">content</div>
<div id ="footer" align="center">
<div class="left">left part of footer menu</div>
<div class="right">right part of footer menu</div>
</div>
</div>
Css style:
#container {
position:relative;
height:auto !important;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
}
#content {
padding:0em 0em 12em;
}
#footer {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
bottom:0;
}
.left {
float: left;
}
.right {
float: right;
}
That works fine in all browsers. But when I add
<script type="text/javascript"></script>
inside
<div class="left">
in FireFox(only) the part of footer after the script come up to the top - between header and content divs.
What's wrong with it?
UPD
This all was about wrong mark-up inside #content. And only FireFox didn't understand when I missed one of closed table tag:) Thank you guys, you helped me to sort it out.
The #footer has absolute position and is inside the relatively positioned #container div so I would expect this. Maybe try making container absolutley positioned.
Also I think your markup is not what you intended. There are one too many opening div tags.
change the #container height from auto to 100% and remove the extra lines for height.
The auto is messing up the calculations as it overrides the 100% lines due to the !important value
Since #footer's position is absolute, with bottom 0, it will be positioned relative to its first (non statically positioned) parent, which is #container. Essentially what's happening here is that #container is becoming mush less high, and dragging #footer with it.
That's happening because you have two height: settings in the css for #container (somehow the script tag triggers it to refresh) so the behaviour would be undefined.
If you're trying to make the footer stick to the bottom of the window, including as it's resized, I'd advise having a javascript function handle it, triggered by the window's resize event (it's fairly simple, see this question on javascript window resize event
You could try the CSS a different way with absolute positioning. I try and avoid float as it can lead to unexpected rendering issues. See this jsFiddle for an alternate approach. Working in IE6, Chrome12 and FF3.6 and FF4 for me.
Using a method I've done before but having issues. Not sure if it's a sprite or what.. Basically you have two versions of an image saved into one file with them stacked on top of each other and use CSS to adjust the margins when hovering. Here's an example of it working successfully: http://minimalpluscreative.com
Trying to do the same thing here, but running into issues with overflow:hidden; not working. Instead, the the full (double) image is shown. Here's what it looks like: http://cl.ly/023p1I1D1W0W3a1T1q1R It should be just the top half of the image with overflow:hidden; preventing the other half from showing.
Help? Some kind of syntax error I'm sure...
HTML:
<div id="work" class="sub">
<h3>MUSIC VIDEOS</h3>
<img id="show_fire" class="thumbnail sprite" src="images/daniel_gomes_soundoffire_sprite.png" />
</div>
CSS:
.sprite {
width:140px;
height:61px;
overflow:hidden;
}
.sprite:hover {
margin-top:-61px;
}
I've never seen this done before except with background images, but I don't see why not… it just seems like you need a lot of extra css, and extra html to get it to work as opposed to a background image.
As was said earlier, it's hard to see the problem without seeing your actual code in context, but based on what I see, there could be a few potential things wrong:
You need to wrap the image in a containing element, and assign the width, height and overflow to that. Hidden overflow will hide what's outside of the boundaries that div contains. The image element is the image, it doesn't contain the image, so setting it to overflow:hidden isn't going to hide andything, and assigning it a width will just resize it, not "crop" it (which is the effect you're going for). So you'd need something like:
<div id="work" class="sub">
<h3>MUSIC VIDEOS</h3>
<a class="sprite" href="#">
<img id="show_fire" class="thumbnail" src="images/daniel_gomes_soundoffire_sprite.png" />
</a>
</div>
with this css:
.sprite {
width:140px;
height:61px;
overflow:hidden;
}
.sprite img {
margin-top: 0;
}
.sprite:hover img {
margin-top: -61px;
}
I suggest you use 'a' as the containing element, as not all browsers will recognize the hover pseudo-class on tags other than anchor tags.
I know you think using an image instead of a background image is simpler, but using background images, you can accomplish all this with only one element and less css.
In the example site you refer to, the overflow:hidden property is set on the outer 'div#a'
'div#work' in your code should have it's overflow set to hidden.
Thus when you change the margin on your image it will move within the frame of your outer div.
Additionally I had to add a tag name to the hover declaration.
<html>
<head>
<style>
#work{
position:relative;
overflow:hidden;
width:140px;
height:61px;
}
div.sprite {
margin-top:0;
}
div.sprite:hover {
margin-top:-61px;
}
/* instead of an image */
.sprite div{
height:61px;
}
.red {background:red}
.blue {background:blue}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="work">
<div class="sprite">
<div class="red">a</div>
<div class="blue">b</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
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 ;-)