TL;DR : Before you read anything, the desired end-result is illustrated in the image below, otherwise refer to the JSFiddle. Preferably, I would like to only use CSS and not modify the DOM structure.
The icons must be aligned completely to the right (hence the .pull-right), but the icons must be stacked vertically (Sometimes some icons must not appear, so they are .hidden, like the .fa-undo icon in the second row).
(When I say 'the icons' i mean the <i> tags and the <img> tag)
The icons must not make the textarea go down (no margin on top of the textarea).
Hopefully, the WIDTH of the textarea would be dynamic and not statically put to width: 90%; for example. It should take as much width as possible, without interfering with the vertical icon stack.
Here is the end result that I want (in a perfect world this would be done using CSS and the same HTML DOM I provided)
In general, images that are UI elements, and not content, should be CSS backgrounds, not inline images. You then use class names to control the image content.
You should be doing this, or something similar:
td.fr {
background-image:url(/images/fr.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position: top right;
}
The same should go for your buttons. Use <button> and style the background.
Not exactly what you wanted I'm afraid, but this is how I'd achieve that result:
fiddle
<div class="pull-right icons">
<img src="http://www.convertnsftopst.net/images/gb.gif" class="pull-right" />
<i class="fa fa-reply"></i>
</div>
td .icons{
width:20px;
text-align:center;
}
Here is the end result that I want (in a perfect world this would be done using CSS and the same HTML DOM I provided)
I was unable to do it without adding another pull-right container, I fear that doing it with only CSS would end up being an odd hack
Fixed here : http://jsfiddle.net/QTXxp/2/
What was lacking when I asked this question was the clear:right; and the use of <div> (or display: block;)
Here is the CSS (if you're too lazy to open the JSFiddle) with the addition of the boostrap class pull-right on the div.icons
textarea.hover-edit {
width: 90% !important;
}
div.icons {
width: 10% !important;
}
div.icons > div > i.fa {
margin-top: 4px;
margin-right: 4px;
}
div.icons > div.action-icon-right {
float:right;
clear:right;
}
I would like to make a background image for one of my images. The background image is transparent and can be seen at http://webmaster.tsaprotectandserve.com/new_design/images/view_site.png (and I'm pretty sure I have the correct url relative to the document in the code) and the idea is just that one you hover over the images, you can see the view site background image. Before I move the background image to a hover class and center it on the image, I wanted to make sure it works properly just as a background image but it isn't showing up.
My code is
<img style="float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; background-image: url(images/view_site.png)" src="images/white_house_website.PNG" width="490" height="231" alt="White House Website">
My website with the issue is here and the image with the problem can be found if you scroll all the way to the bottom. It is the white house image.
u can view my working solution in jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/avi_sagi/Ea78j/3/
CSS Rules
.thumb{
width:490px;
height:231px;
background:url('images/view_site.png') no-repeat center;
background-size:100%;
}
.thumb:hover .view_site{
width:490px;
height:231px;
background:url('images/white_house_website.PNG') no-repeat center;
background-size:128px 128px;
}
if your css is in external stylesheets remember to change the url of the background image or mention absolute url to be safe.
HTML
<div class="thumb">
<div class="view_site"></div>
</div>
It is actually working. the image is covering up the "Veiw Site" image.
Because its the background.
i removed the top image via google chrome...
What you want to do is set the "View Site" image as separate div as child of a div around the image.
and set it to appear on hover.
something like
http://jsfiddle.net/hWcMK/
CSS:
.imagebox:hover .viewsite{
display:block;
}
.viewsite{
width:125px;
height:125px;
background-image: url("http://webmaster.tsaprotectandserve.com/new_design/images/view_site.png");
margin-top:-150px;
position:absolute;
display:none;
}
and the HTML:
<div class="imagebox">
<img src="http://webmaster.tsaprotectandserve.com/new_design/images/abc_website.PNG" width="80%"/ >
<div class="viewsite"></div>
</div>
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>
Hy, i'm really stuck. I'll go step by step and hope to make it short.
This is the html structure:
<li class="FAVwithimage">
<a href="">
<img src="pics/Joshua.png">
<span class="name">Joshua</span>
<span class="comment">Developer</span>
<span class="arrow"></span>
</a>
</li>
Before i paste the css classes, some info about the exact goal to accomplish:
Resize the picture (img) by 57%. If it cannot be done with css, then jquery/javascript solution. For example: Original pic is 240x240px, i need to resize it by 57%. That means that a pic of 400x400 would be bigger after resizing.
After resizing, the picture needs to be centered
vertical&horizontal inside a: 68x90
boundaries. So you have an LI element,
wich has an A element, and inside A we
have IMG, IMG is resized by 57% and
centered where the maximum width can
be of course 68px and maximum height
90px. No for that to work i was adding
a SPAN element arround the IMG.
This is what i was thinking:
<li class="FAVwithimage">
<a href="">
<span class="picHolder"><img src="pics/Joshua.png"></span>
<span class="name">Joshua</span>
<span class="comment">Developer</span>
<span class="arrow"></span>
</a>
</li>
Then i would give the span element: display:block and w=68px, h=90px. But unforunatelly that didn't work.
I know it's a long post but i'v did my best to describe it very simple. Beneath are the css classes and a picture to see what i need.
li.FAVwithimage {
height: 90px!important;
}
li.FAVwithimage a, li.FAVwithimage:hover a {
height: 81px!important;
}
That's it what's relevant. I have not included the classes for: name,comment,arrow
And now the classes that are incomplete and refer to IMG.
li.FAVwithimage a span.picHolder{
/*put the picHolder to the beginning
of the LI element*/
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 68px;
height: 90px;
diplay:block;
border:1px solid #F00;
}
Border is used just temporary to show the actuall picHolder. It is now on the beginning of LI, width and height is set.
li.FAVwithimage span.picHolder img
{
max-width:68px!important;
max-height:90px!important;
}
This is the class wich should shrink the pic by 57% and center inside picHolder
Here I have a drawing describing what i need:
alt text http://lookpic.com/i/169/2U12JC16.jpeg
I don't know what you're talking about with the 57% - from your example, you want to scale to fit within 68x90, not 57% specifically. As far as I can tell, using max-width and max-height works for that (though won't work in IE6, and I don't think there's a non-JS workaround for that). But why do you expect it to be centered?
The easiest way to center an image you don't know the size of, when you do know the size of the parent, is to set on the parent:
text-align: center;
line-height: 90px; /* height of parent */
vertical-align: middle;
One problem with this though, is that if the user increases the font size, the line-height increases along with it, making the image(s) not centered vertically anymore.
For the absolute positioning, I assume you have position: relative on the li? Also, you could probably use float: left; instead (but of course you'd need an element with clear: left; at the end of the li then).
As far I can remember (out of the web dev world for a while), a is an inline element and you can't set its height. You could try adding a display:block to a elements.
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 ;-)