<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<a href="http://www.google.com">
<span>title<br></span>
<span>description<br></span>
<span>some url</span>
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I am pretty new to CSS, I have a simple case like the above. I would like to make the "title" and "some url" clickable but want to make description as non-clickable. Is there any way to do that by applying some CSS on the span so that whatever inside that span, it is not clickable.
My constraint is that, I do not want to change the structure of the div, instead just applying css can we make a span which is inside an anchor tag, not clickable ?
Actually, you can achieve this via CSS. There's an almost unknown css rule named pointer-events. The a element will still be clickable but your description span won't.
a span.description {
pointer-events: none;
}
there are other values like: all, stroke, painted, etc.
ref: http://robertnyman.com/2010/03/22/css-pointer-events-to-allow-clicks-on-underlying-elements/
UPDATE: As of 2016, all browsers now accept it: http://caniuse.com/#search=pointer-events
UPDATE: As of 2022, browsers behavior may have changed, another option can be:
a {
pointer-events: none;
}
a span:not(.description) {
pointer-events: initial;
}
Not with CSS. You could do it with JavaScript easily, though, by canceling the default event handling for those elements. In jQuery:
$('a span:nth-child(2)').click(function(event) { event.preventDefault(); });
CSS is used for applying styling i.e. the visual aspects of an interface.
That clicking an anchor element causes an action to be performed is a behavioural aspect of an interface, not a stylistic aspect.
You cannot achieve what you want using only CSS.
JavaScript is used for applying behaviours to an interface. You can use JavaScript to modify the behaviour of a link.
In response to piemesons rant against jQuery, a Vanilla JavaScript(TM) solution (tested on FF and IE):
Put this in a script tag after your markup is loaded (right before the close of the body tag) and you'll get a similar effect to the jQuery example.
a = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i = 0; i < a.length;i++) {
a[i].getElementsByTagName('span')[1].onclick = function() { return false;};
}
This will disable the click on every 2nd span inside of an a tag.
You could also check the innerHTML of each span for "description", or set an attribute or class and check that.
This is the simplest way I would have done it. Without bordering about CSS or javascript :
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com">
<span>title<br></span>
</a>
<span>description<br></span>
<a href="http://www.google.com">
<span>some url</span>
</a>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can replace the tag with anything you want.
Yes you can....
you can place something on top of the link element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Yes you CAN</title>
<style type="text/css">
ul{
width: 500px;
border: 5px solid black;
}
.product-type-simple {
position: relative;
height: 150px;
width: 150px;
}
.product-type-simple:before{
position: absolute;
height: 100% ;
width: 100% ;
content: '';
background: green;//for debugging purposes , remove this if you want to see whats behind
z-index: 999999999999;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li class='product-type-simple'>
<a href="/link1">
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x150">
</a>
</li>
<li class='product-type-simple'>
<a href="/link2">
<img src="http://placehold.it/150x150">
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
the magic sauce happens at product-type-simple:before class
Whats happening here is that for each element that has class of product-type-simple you create something that has the width and height equal to that of the product-type-simple , then you increase its z-index to make sure it will place it self on top of the content of product-type-simple. You can toggle the background color if you want to see whats going on.
here is an example of the code
https://jsfiddle.net/92qky63j/
CSS relates to visual styling and not behaviour, so the answer is no really.
You could however either use javascript to modify the behaviour or change the styling of the span in question so that it doesn't have the pointy finger, underline, etc. Styling it like that will still leave it clickable.
Even better, change your markup so that it reflects what you want it to do.
Using CSS you cannot, CSS will only change the appearance of the span. However you can do it without changing the structure of the div by adding an onclick handler to the span:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<a href="http://www.google.com">
<span>title<br></span>
<span onclick='return false;'>description<br></span>
<span>some url</span>
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
You can then style it so that it looks un-clickable too:
<html>
<head>
<style type='text/css'>
a span.unclickable { text-decoration: none; }
a span.unclickable:hover { cursor: default; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<a href="http://www.google.com">
<span>title<br></span>
<span class='unclickable' onclick='return false;'>description<br></span>
<span>some url</span>
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Related
I'm having an issue coloring a span with css. Everything is working fine on the webpage however when I try to select a span in a div it doesn't work. Am I missing something dumb here?
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link href="style/mainstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src= https://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js></script>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>TEST</h1>
</header>
<main>
<div class = "tab1 triad">
<script src="primejs.js"></script>
<span class="red"><h2>Type in a number and I'll check if it is prime:</h2></span>
<input class = "primeNum" type = "text">
<button class = "submit">Submit</button>
<span class = "result">
<h2>What I found: <span class = "answer">?</span></h2>
</span>
</div>
</main>
</body>
and here is the css:
.tab1 span.red {
color: RED;
font-size: 100;
}
Cleaned up your HTML, you had a some stray and missing tags.
Bin demo
<div class="tab1 triad">
<span class="red">
<h2>Type in a number and I'll check if it is prime:</h2>
</span>
<input class="primeNum" type="text">
<button class="submit">Submit</button>
<span class="result">
<h2>What I found: <span class="answer">?</span></h2>
</span>
</div>
And your css was missing the px after 100
.tab1 span.red {
color: red;
font-size: 100px;
}
try this
.red {
color: red;
font-size: 100px; /* specify a unit like px, em, ... */
}
First of all, the HTML code you have posted is not valid. You can use the official W3C validator to check if you like. The main issue is the spaces either side of your = when declaring attributes. Spaces are only ever used in between different attributes. Also, h2 elements are block type elements, and are therefore not allowed inside of an inline element (e.g., span).
Secondly, the CSS is also not all valid. Firstly, there is no need to make anything uppercase, as is shown for the colour name. color:red; will work just fine. Also, you have not specified any units of measurement for the font-size property. I assume you intended for the text to be at 100pt, in which case you need to use font-size:100pt;. Other valid units of measurement include px, cm and rem.
I recommend you read information on the Mozilla Developer Network for examples if you would like to learn more. It includes accurate pages about HTML elements, CSS properties and JavaScript.
Edit:
The following would help to fix the HTML:
Change doctype to DOCTYPE, which improves compatibility.
Move all script tags into the head tag.
Ensure that all inputs, buttons, etc. are inside of form elements.
Remove spaces around = signs.
Make the href attribute of the stylesheet link tag the second attribute, and make the rel attribute the first. This is primarily for consistency.
I have a slight problem that I swear should work...it kinda seems like a silly question ...but here it is ...
i want a div i created to act as a button ...it how ever does not want to change its background when i click on it( giving the effect of a button)
here's my code :
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style>
#button1 {
width:100px;
height:50px;
background-image:url(normalbutton.jpg)
}
</style>
</head>
<body class="asd">
<div id="container">
<a href="#">
<div id="button1" onmousedown="document.getElementById("button1").style.backgroundImage='url(onmousedownbutton.jpg)'"></div></a>
</body>
</html>
I think using jQuery it will be easy :
$("#button1").mousedown(function() {
$(this).css({'background-image': 'url(1.jpg)'})
});
Just use css :
HTML
<html>
<body class="asd">
<div id="container">
<a href="#">
<div id="button1" ></div>
</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
#button1 {width:500px;height:500px;background:red}
#button1:hover {background:green;}
#button1:active {background:grey;}
You use double quotes inside double quotes. Change the quotes around button1 to single quotes like this:
<div id="button1" onmousedown="document.getElementById('button1').style.backgroundImage='url(onmousedownbutton.jpg)'"></div>
Further notes:
Your <div id="container"> isn't closed
You can't use <div> inside of <a>
Change the mouse down like this
<a href="#">
<div id="button1" onmousedown="this.style.backgroundImage='url(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6-aJ6Hz_oXi_M2ZScbEiNGKZFKN3hyhffh2NMWTmbgU2WX-IZKA)'">Button
</div>
</a>
LiveDemo
onmousedown="this.style.backgroundImage='url(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6-aJ6Hz_oXi_M2ZScbEiNGKZFKN3hyhffh2NMWTmbgU2WX-IZKA)'">
I have used some images from Google it will look good with some custom images. :)
You also can try css:
#button1:focus {
background: url(onmousedownbutton.jpg);
}
or
#button1:active{
background: url(onmousedownbutton.jpg);
}
Building on Bushan's answer, this will swap to the downclick image when mouse is held down, and revert back to the original image when mouse button is released.
$("#button1").mousedown(function() {
$(this).css({'background-image': 'url(image2.jpg)'})
}).mousedown(function(){
$(this).css({'background-image': 'url(image1.jpg)'})
});
HTML:
<div id="button1" style="background-image:url('image1.jpg');"></div>
Sources/References:
CSS background-image - What is the correct usage?
I am trying to adjust the CSS so the "product" and product information is centered and not floated to the left I cannot adjust the HTML as its given via a shortcode thats added into the WP post but maybe I could wrap it in a div?
HTML:
<ul class="products ribbon">
<li class="product last first">
<a href="http://dailybabydeals.co.nz/shop/estella-rose-designs/">
<div class="thumbnail">
<span class="onsale">Sale!</span>
<img width="325" height="325" src="http://dailybabydeals.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Front-Page-325x325.jpg" class="attachment-shop_catalog wp-post-image" alt="Front Page" />
<div class="thumb-shadow"></div>
<strong class="below-thumb">Estella Rose Designs</strong>
</div>
<span class="price"><span class="from">From: </span><del><span class="amount">$25</span></del> <ins><span class="amount">$19.95</span></ins></span>
</a>
<div class="buttons">
Select options</div>
</li></ul>
CSS:
CSS
Okay, let's try this again now that I understand your question better. So you want to center the <ul> element as a whole? That is a lot simpler than what I originally thought you were going for.
To do that, all you need to do is wrap the <ul> element in a span tag that is set to display as an inline-block. Then set the containing element so that its text is centered.
Try this:
<html>
<head>
<style language="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[ */
#test1 {
text-align: center;
}
#test2 {
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
}
/* ]]> */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="test1">
<span id="test2">
<!-- Place your <ul> element here -->
</span>
</div>
</body>
</html>
how it works
The "test2" element is set to display as an inline-block, which means it displays inline with the text. This means that it can then be affected by properties that manipulate lines of text, such as "text-align".
Setting "text-align" to "center" on the "test1" element makes the inline content -- the "test2" element in this case -- within it become centered on the screen.
The standard way to center a block is to set the "margin-right" and "margin-left" properties to "auto", but that only works for elements that are displayed as blocks and that have a width that is less than 100%.
I would just put it in a div and float it next to another div with nothing in it.
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/
Like in step 8 in this link.
The reason that it looks like the text "Sale!" is floated to the left is that <img> elements display as inline blocks by default, so the image is on the same line of text as the words "Sale!". A <br /> tag immediately following the text "Sale!" would solve that problem; but you said you can't modify this HTML, right?
Given that restriction, here is how I was able to solve the problem...
Surround the HTML from your example in a <span> tag and assign it a class. I used "test" as my class name".
Then Place this CSS in the head of the HTML document:
<style language="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[ */
.thumbnail img {
display: block;
}
.test {
display: inline-block;
}
.test .price, .test .below-thumb {
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
/* ]]> */
</style>
why it works
The selector for making the image display as a block solves the problem of the missing <br /> tag.
The span tag with which you surrounded the HTML displays as an inline block. This means that it will collapse around its contents, giving you a box within which you can center the text.
Making the items that contain the text display as a block causes them to take a width of 100%, filling the surrounding box
The inclusion of "text-align: center" is what finally makes the text display as centered within its container
I have a hover solution setup with CSS. However, the hover images don't respect the viewport and therefore end up displaying outside of it. I planned to simply create new classes specifying the offset depending on the location of the image within my design, but since I can't control the resolution the user is using, I was thinking there should be some way to force the hover to display within the viewport. Does anyone have an idea on how I can do this?
I have the following CSS:
.thumbnail:hover {
background-color: transparent;
z-index: 50;
}
.thumbnail span {
position: absolute;
padding: 5px;
left: -1000px;
border: 1px dashed gray;
visibility: hidden;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.thumbnail span img {
border-width: 0;
padding: 2px;
}
.thumbnail:hover span {
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 70px;
}
To match the following thumbnails with hover:
<li>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="1_s.jpg" />
<span><img src="1_b.jpg" /></span>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.google.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="2_s.jpg" />
<span><img src="2_b.jpg" /></span>
</a>
</li>
I have a sample page here displaying the behavior:
http://estorkdelivery.com/example/example2.html
Hover over the images at the bottom to see the hover image display outside of the viewport.
Thanks!
Update 2/22/2012 I tested answer #1 below, but it introduced new issues such as the need to change the transparency and the need to have the hover image always display from the top left of the image - both issues I saw no way of modifying with the script options. Anyone have other suggestions or a way to modify the script in answer #1? Also, I should add what I'm looking for as more of the final result is the hover styling of images on istockphoto.com where the images always appear in the same spot to the left or right of the images they are hovering over and not based off the position of the mouse as you hover over the image.
I've created a bespoke plugin for you!
http://jsfiddle.net/adaz/tAECz/
Well, it's pretty basic but I think it meets your criteria. You can activate it in two ways:
1) If you can't be bothered creating thumbnails for every image, you can just simply list your images like this:
<ul id="istockWannabe">
<li>
<img src="imgURL" width="600" height="400" title="Description" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="imgURL" width="600" height="400" title="Description" />
</li>
...
</ul>
2) If you really want to create your own thumbnails, your html should look like this:
<ul id="istockWannabe">
<li>
<span rel="largeImgURL"><img src="thumbURL" /><span class="iStockWannabe_description">Image description</span></span>
</li>
...
</ul>
Either way you choose, you need to include jQuery 1.7+ in your page along with my plugin.
The very last thing you need to do is to activate it, if you're going for the first option, you can just include in your page following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#istockWannabe").istockWannabe();
});
</script>
If you're going for the second option, you need to override default settings like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#istockWannabe").istockWannabe({ createThumbs: false });
});
</script>
This is more like a prototype so it's quite limited in terms of functionaltiy but you can set some options like:
thumbMaxWidth: 100
thumbMaxHeight: 100
tooltipWidth: 200
tooltipHeight: 150
transitionSpeed: 100
If you like it, I'm happy to spend some time on it and adjust it to suit your needs!
Try the jQuery Tooltip:
Here is an example according to your request:
http://jsfiddle.net/cadence96/3X2eZ/
DOCS
http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Tooltip
http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/demo/
Quick instructions:
1) Within the <head> load the css and scripts:
<link href="http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/jquery.tooltip.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/jquery.tooltip.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
2) Still within the <head> place the execution script:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".your-div").tooltip({
track: true,
delay: 0,
showURL: false,
fade: 250,
bodyHandler: function() {
return $($(this).next().html());
},
showURL: false
});
});
</script>
The class '.my-div' will be used to display the image with the hover event.
The sibling div to '.my-div' must contain the hidden elements to make visible after hovering.
<ul>
<li>
<div class="my-div">
<!-- Here comes the image with the hover event -->
</div>
<div class="active-hover">
<!-- Here comes all the hidden elements I want to display while hovering the PREVIOUS div --><br />
<!-- .active-hover must be set with display:none -->
</div>
</li>
</ul>
That's all!
I've developed a script, in the js you can change the width of the container.
Here is the fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/cadence96/GgDqh/
UPDATED, NOW WORKS IN FIDDLE AND IS MORE ADAPTABLE.
UPDATED:
demo : http://so.lucafilosofi.com/make-css-hover-stay-within-viewport
look at the source code
NB: this does not take in consideration cases in which the popup is bigger then the window, in this case you should not only change the offset position but you have to resize the popup to fit the window.
This works. I however solved the problem only for the Y-axis. For the horizontal offset it should be the same. See how it works here.
I set the top to exactly the side of the image * -1, this aligns the image at the bottom if it doesn't fit, change that value to whatever you want. The images are very big and this script is however not gonna be bulletproof. You would have to get the whole visible area to make sure it doesn't cut out on the other side when you re-position it.
The markup hasn't changed, I just added the Jquery:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".thumbnail > img").mouseenter(function(){
var winSize = $(window).height();
var winScrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
var linkOffset = $(this).offset().top - winScrollTop + 75;
// 75px is the height of the img. To get the offset().bottom . Get rid of the scroll too.
var imgHover = $(this).next("span");
var imgHoverHeight = parseInt(imgHover.children("img").attr("height"));
var spaceDif = winSize-linkOffset;
if(spaceDif < imgHoverHeight){
imgHover.css("top", -imgHoverHeight+"px");
//it doesn't have to be -imgHoverHeight. Tweak this value to get better results
}
});
$(".thumbnail > img").mouseout(function(){
$("span").css("top", "0");
});
});
Hope it helped!!
Try this one... seems comparatively cool!
<html>
<head>
<title>Hover Test</title>
<style>
li {margin-bottom: 100px;}
.thumbnail{position: relative;z-index: 0;}
.thumbnail:hover{background-color: transparent;z-index: 50;}
.thumbnail div{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/position: absolute;padding: 5px;left: -1000px;border: 1px dashed gray;visibility: hidden;color: black;text-decoration: none;}
.thumbnail div img{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/border-width: 0;padding: 2px;}
.thumbnail:hover div{ /*CSS for enlarged image on hover*/visibility: visible;top: 0;left: 70px; /*position where enlarged image should offset horizontally */}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<li>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="1_s.jpg">
<div><img src="1_b.jpg"></div>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.google.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="2_s.jpg">
<div><img src="2_b.jpg"></div>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.apple.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="3_s.jpg">
<div><img src="3_b.jpg"></div>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.babycenter.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="4_s.jpg">
<div><img src="4_b.jpg"></div>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.food.com" class="img thumbnail">
<img src="5_s.jpg">
<div><img src="5_b.jpg"></div>
</a>
</li>
</body>
I have a block of html that I want to act as a clickable link. In the block of code below, I would like to make the whole div into a link.
<div id="clickableLink">
<h3>Link Heading</h3>
<img src="linkPic.jpg" alt="Link alt text" width="65" height="65" />
</div>
HTML5 permits surrounding the html in an anchor tag (I think). See below
<a href="goThere.html">
<div id="clickableLink">
<h3>Link Heading</h3>
<img src="linkPic.jpg" alt="Link alt text" width="65" height="65" />
</div>
</a>
However, this seems wrong to me. How will software such as screen readers describe the link.
I also considered the following CSS trick. I altered the HTML to be
<div id="clickableLink">
<h3>Link Heading</h3>
<img src="linkPic.jpg" alt="Link alt text" width="65" height="65" />
</div>
and then used CSS to style the link to cover the whole of the div. See below:
#clickableLink {
position: relative;
width: 100px;
height: 200px;
z-index: 0;
}
h3 {
z-index: 0;
}
img {
z-index: 0;
}
a {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100px;
height: 200px;
z-index: 1;
}
This works perfectly in all browsers apart from IE. Does anyone else have any suggestions?
Your first approach is actually the best. To describe your link, you should use the a element's attributes such as title, alt and possibly any WAI-ARIA markup you wanted to employ. This is good industry practice anyway and allows you to wrap content in an a tag without worrying about accessibility.
The thing that will allow older browsers to render it properly (and to make sure it validates) is to use inherently inline elements inside an inline element. In other words, block level elements can not be placed inside inline ones (according to the HTML, not the values that CSS may give the element). You can then use CSS to make a span act like it is block level. So the markup could easily be:
<a href="goThere.html">
<span id="clickableLink">
<span class="headerthree">Link Heading</span>
<img src="linkPic.jpg" alt="Link alt text" width="65" height="65" />
</span>
</a>
If you declare that the A is block level, then you wouldn't even need the span. Problem here is that you lose the SEO of using Header elements. So...
The best thing is probably to leave it specced for HTML5 as you have it above, even though it seems wrong. To help SEO and screen readers, use a title tag to "describe" the anchor. The code will validate just fine. Then, make sure your A is display: block, and I think older browsers will render it ok, too.