How to make a DIV section clickable?

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Solution 1

The best way to do this kind of effect (making links act like buttons) is to apply css to the links themselves. Here's a basic example:

a.mylink {
display: block;
padding: 10px;
width: 200px;
background-color: #000;
color: #fff;
}

Test it out - the whole of the button is clickable. And it respects the browser's normal link actions like right-clicking, status url information, etc.

Solution 2

Usually this is done in either of the following ways:

<div class='link_wrapper'>
  <!-- there could be more divs here for styling -->
  <a href='example.com'>GOto Example!</a>
</div>

.link_wrapper{
  somestyles: values;
  height: 20px; /*or whatever*/
  width:auto;
  padding:0px;
}
.link_wrapper a{
  line_height:20px; /*same as .link_wapper*/
  margin:0px;
}

Now the whole div is clickable.

Using Javascript this is also quite easy, this is using jQuery for easyness, however you could very easiyly do this without jQuery (if you do not already use it).

$('.link_wrapper')
  .style('cursor', 'pointer') //very important, indicate to user that div is clickable
  .click( function() {
    window.location = $(this).find('a').attr('href');
  }); //Do click as if user clicked actual text of link.

I highly recommend putting an actual link in the DIV as non-javascript user will not be able to use the link if there is no actual link in the DIV.

Solution 3

I think you had to write CSS for your "a" tags, instead of putting your links into divs and tunning divs with CSS.

Here is the example of the sidebar:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">

/*********************/
/* SIDEBAR */
/*********************/
#sidebar {
  width: 160px;
  float: left;
  margin-top: 10px;
}

#news {
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  list-style: none;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  border-top: 1px dashed #294E56;
  border-right: 1px dashed #294E56;
}
#news li {
  display: inline;
}
#news .title {
  font-weight: bold;
  display: block;
  color: #666666;
}
#news a {
  text-decoration: none;
  display: block;
  padding: 5px;
  border-bottom: 1px dashed #294E56;
  color: #73AFB7;
  line-height: 110%;
  background: #FFFFFF url(images/bg/bg_link.png) no-repeat right top;
}
/* hack for IE 6 < to make entire block clickable */
* html #news a {
  height: 1px; 
}

#news a:hover {
  color: #000000;
  background-image: url(images/bg/bg_link_h.png);
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="sidebar">
<ul id="news">
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Virgo: It's Your Month</span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Your Feedback </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">This Month's Survey </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Indoor lawns: sod or seed? </span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Lorem Ipsum </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Dolor site amet </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Adipiscing elit </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Euismod tincidunt </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Dolor site amet </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
    <li><a href="#"><span class="title">Dolor site amet </span>Lorem ipsum dolor site amet.</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

You can see it in action here: http://bazanov.net/sidebar

Solution 4

To make a div clickable. put an a tag inside it and display it as a block element and give it the same width and height as the div I do it all the time.

Solution 5

Try this:

<div onclick="location.href='http://www.example.com';" style="cursor:pointer;"></div>

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Updated on July 30, 2022

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chustar almost 2 years

I have written a web page in which links are all contained within their own tags. I've also made them all button styles with CSS (border, background color, padding). How do I enable the whole DIV to be clicked to activate the link?