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CSS - Background-image As A Link?
Just wondering if there was any way to have a background-image as a link?
The reason why: I have a banner across the top of a site, and I'm sure I can probably lay it out using Divs, but I had made the banner a background anyways because I have a horiz. nav. menu that needed to go across the bottom of the banner on the left side. Essentially, there's a logo at the top left, nav. menu on the bottom left, and an image on the entire right side. But now I realized that I should make the logo a link back to the main page of the site. So can I make a background-image as a link, or do I need to pull it out and make it a regular image? Thanks. Similar TutorialsHi. Really hoping someone can help me with this... I'll try and explain this as best I can(!) Basically I've got a page containing a block of 9 images, with each linking to a video clip. At the moment I've got the CSS coded so that whenever the mouse is hovered over the 'infobar' (at the bottom of each image) it goes from having a transparent background with black text to having a grey background with white text. What I'm trying to achieve is that same effect whenever the mouse is hovered over any part of the image and infobar. The live online link can be found at: www.markmcm.co.uk/test/test.html The CSS is as as follows: Code:
/*
* Page Stylesheet
*/
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #eaeaea;
border:0; margin:0; padding:0;
height: 100%;
}
a:link {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
}
#container {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
min-height: 100%;
width: 936px;
}
* html #container {
height: 100%;
}
#content {
float:left;
position: relative;
height: 528px;
width: 936px;
z-index: 0;
}
.miniscreen1, .miniscreen2, .miniscreen3, .miniscreen4, .miniscreen5, .miniscreen6, .miniscreen7, .miniscreen8, .miniscreen9 {
position: absolute;
float: left;
display: block;
width: 312px;
height: 176px;
}
.miniscreen1 {
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
.miniscreen2 {
top:0;
left: 312px;
}
.miniscreen3 {
top: 0;
left: 624px;
}
.miniscreen4 {
left: 0;
top:176px;
}
.miniscreen5 {
left: 312px;
top:176px;
}
.miniscreen6 {
left: 624px;
top:176px;
}
.miniscreen7 {
left: 0;
top:352px;
}
.miniscreen8 {
left: 312px;
top:352px;
}
.miniscreen9 {
left: 624px;
top:352px;
}
.info {
height: 30px;
top:3px;
left: 40px;
width: 265px;
float: left;
position: absolute;
}
.infobar {
left:0px;
position: absolute;
top: 140px;
width: 312px;
height: 36px;
outline: none;
color:#000;
background: url("data/infobar.png") no-repeat 0 0;
z-index: 650;
}
.infobar:hover {
background-position: 0 -36px;
outline: none;
color:#fff;
}
#infobar span {
display: none;
outline: none;
}
.clip_title {
outline: none;
font-size: 85%;
font-weight: 700;
vertical-align: top;
text-align: left;
}
.clip_sub {
outline: none;
height: 13px;
font-size: 80%;
line-height: 13px;
font-weight: 700;
vertical-align: top;
text-align: left;
}
And the HTML is: Code: <!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"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Test Page</title> <meta name="description" content=" " /> <meta name="keywords" content=" " /> <meta name="generator" content=" " /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="page.css" media="screen" /> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> <span class="miniscreen1"> <a href="#"> <img src="img/clip1.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 1<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen2"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip2.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 2<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen3"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip3.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 3<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen4"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip4.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 4<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen5"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip5.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 5<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen6"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip6.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 6<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen7"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip7.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 7<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen8"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip8.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 8<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> <span class="miniscreen9"> <a href="#"><img src="img/clip9.jpg" width="312" height="176" border="0"> <span class="infobar"><span class="info clip_title">Test Clip 9<br><span class="clip_sub">123 Productions</span></span></span></a> </span></span> </div> </div> </body> </html> There must be a better (and easier?) way to do this. Any help would be very-much appreciated - and save an old bloke from tearing too much of his hair out(!) Hi, Please help me with this, I'm at my wit's end. I can not for the life of me set the background image of a link from the CSS. I can do it from the link HTML itself with: Code: style="background-image: url(resources/menu_over.jpg);" But I CANNOT do it from the CSS with something like this: Code: <a class="navlink" href="#">asdf</a> Code: .navlink
{
/*background-color: red;*/
background-image: url(resources/menu_over.jpg);
}
Also, I am referincing my CSS file correctly b/c I tested it with "background-color", as you can see above. Please help... thanks I had been helped on this board previously with this question for a site I was working on. I am using the same approach on another site to link back to the home page from the internal pages. And for all intents and purposes it is working. However I could/can not figure out how to precisely position where the link starts and ends. http://www.guestwardho.com/campground_map.html If, for example, you go to the above page and put your mouse over the header image you will see the link begins at the left edge of the header image. If you move to the right the link 'ends' a little more then half way across the image - at the uppercase 'H' in 'Ho' for reference. Again, this is fine for this purpose/site, but cannot figure out how to control where the link area starts and ends. Thank you in advance for your assistance. ok here is a thing, it is also a firefox and ei related issue, when i specify background image for my link and specify lef-padding so that, small image that i attached looks like bulleting point, now if my width of the link is longer then my column then logically it will continue on a next line, and everything is great in firefox, but in ei what happens to background image it centers between two lines. So how can i fix it so it sticks to with in first boundary edges of the first line like in fire fox. to see example check the opticsblog.com I have a site where the header img for the page is actually set in the CSS as a background-image: url (link). However, in good form, I'd like to place an <a href="home.htm"> on that image so that users can click the top header and return to the home page. Has anyone done this? If so, how did you accomplish it? Hi. I have just recently begun working with CSS. Is it possible with CSS (and without the use of any JavaScript) to have the background image change on a link mouseover? I have the first image below (blue.jpg) set as my default background image and would like the second image (blue1.jpg) to display when the user hovers over a particular link. URL URL Thanks for any help anyone can offer Hello, I'm trying to create an list menu like the one in attached image and I have 2 problems. 1. In IE 6,IE 7 the list is ordered verticaly and not horizontaly (in Opera and FF it is ok) 2. I need to align the text on the bottom of the list like inattached image. Here is what I manage to do till now : http://www.sibiul.net/test/list-align.php Anyone knows what I must do ? 10x Hi, I'm using html:link with a background image. This works fine on IE and Firefox, but the link won't show in Mozilla. Could changes to the css fix this? Does anyone know how to solve this? Regards, Nina The layout I have going is a bit difficult to explain. Here's a diagram.. The area of importance is the header. The content and main head area are centered. The area to the left and right of the header are a <div>. However, as you can see, the background image on the left is different than the one on the right. I'm having difficulty making this work. the images can be stretched horizontally without a problem, but the two sides must meet in the middle beneath the header. I hope this makes sense. What I've got to do, I think, is tell the background image of the underlying <div> to stretch to 100%, and make this image 300px wide or so including both sides of the image and a split. The split would hide behind the header. I can't find a method to stretch the background image, though. Does anybody know of a better way, or a way to achieve this method at all without getting into completely different layouts? Thanks in advance for any assistance/suggestions. I have my links defined with a dashed border, but I don't want this on linked images and I'm trying to figure out if I can accomplish this with CSS only without additional markup in my HTML file. Here is a sample file: http://www. shawkey.com/test/imagebordertest.html Any suggestions on how I can get the dashed border to not appear below the image and only appear below the text with just CSS? In short, I'm trying to get this one image to tile down the page to the bottom, underneath a static background image. Basically, it's a 2pixel high image that's ready to tile vertically, just having a tough time getting it to work. You can clearly see the problem here, a gap at the bottom: http://www.groundedgroup.com/clients/NWR/ Here's the relevant css: http://www.groundedgroup.com/client...WR-GG/style.css I've googled and subsequently tried out some solutions, but no luck. Got any ideas? Thanks in advance. PS - Is there a way to keep the spiders from indexing my links above? The site is on a test server, so I don't want the url indexed. I just wanted to know is it possible using css to add a link to a background image in a table or cell? if so how would you do that? To start with, here's a block of code: my style.css Code: .main {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11pt;
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #666666;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: top;
border: #000000; }
a.main:link {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #666666; }
a.main:visited {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #666666; }
a.main:hover {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FF8A00;
text-decoration: underline overline line-through;
background-color: #666666;}
a.main:active {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FF6F00;
text-decoration: blink;
background-color: #666666; }
my html-file's thingies: Code: <div id="Main" style="position:absolute; width:50%; z-index:5; left: 25%; top: 25%; background-color: #333333; layer-background-color: #333333; border: 3px none #000000;" class="main"> And the problem: With Windows XP /w IE and Linux /w Opera I get the same stupid looking detail - the backgrounds of the links are different from the div's background. So that the dark grey part is broken by the links and their light grey boxes. Looks horrific.. By the way, is there a good place for language references for CSS, PHP and HTML in the internet (URL)? I am trying to get a background colour on a link that changes when it is rolled over. This I can do, however the colour only extends to the length of the word, I want it to extend to the entire length of the sidebar it is in. See: Online FX for what I mean. Current CSS: Code: .sidebar {
background-image: url(images/sidebar.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
width: 165px;
}
.sidelinks {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding-left: 30px;
padding-top: 55px;
vertical-align: top;
vertical-align: text-top;
width:100%;
height:20px;
}
a.side:link { color: blue; text-decoration: none; display:block; color:#FFFFFF; background:#0054A5; }
a.side:active { color: red; text-decoration: none; }
a.side:visited { color: blue; text-decoration: none; color:#FFFFFF; background:#0054A5; }
a.side:hover { color: blue; text-decoration: none; background: #0E4173; }
And the HTML for that section: Code: <td rowspan="2" class="sidebar" valign="top"> <div class="sidelinks"> <a href="index.html" class="side">Home</a> </div> </td> Any ideas? I have three "buttons" that are essentially <div> elements on a page made to look like a button. I would like to make the background color change for the button on the "hover" state, but for some reason the only part of the background that changes on the hover state is the area only behind the text. Here's my code. I'd like the whole background area to change, anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Code:
.prioritycontainer {
width: auto;
float: left;
display: inline;
margin: 0px 0px;
padding: 10px 0px;
}
.prioritybutton {
float: left;
width: 150px;
height: auto;
display: inline;
margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px;
padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
background-color: #978047;
border: solid 1px #CCBC77;
color: #fff;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.prioritybutton a:link {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.prioritybutton a:visited {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.prioritybutton a:hover {
color: #fff;
background-color: #A19058;
text-decoration: none;
}
.prioritybutton a:active {
color: #fff;
background-color: #A19058;
text-decoration: none;
}
Markup on .html page is as follows: Code: <div class="prioritycontainer"> <div class="prioritybutton"><a href="one.htm">One</a></div> <div class="prioritybutton"><a href="two.htm">Two</a></div> <div class="prioritybutton"><a href="three.htm">Three</a></div> </div> Any help would be very helpful. Thanks, Brian I'm setting up my first CSS page and am having a problem I do not understand. I set up my CSS page "test.css" like this:<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> BODY {background-color: #C4C4C4} H1 {font-family: serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 900; font-size: xx-large; color : #CC3300} H2 {font-family: Fantasy; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-size: large; color : #666699} P {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: x-small; color : #993366} B {background-color: #FFFFFF; font-size: medium} </STYLE> If I copy this code directly into my <HEAD> section, it all works as expected, but when I replace this with a <LINK REL="test.css"> statement, the background and bold styles do not work while all the rest work the same. Any ideas??? Joel Trying to get my td backgrounds and my links to change colors when you roll over into the td. However only both change when you roll over the link within the td. If you roll over just the td, it changes, but I need both the link color and the bg color to change when you roll over the td. Here's what I'm going for, the category set up I mean: http://www.colemancampingstore.com/link-hiking.html Here's my CSS etc. PHP Code: td:hover.cats { background-color: #446644; color:white; } a:link.catlink { font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000; text-decoration: underline; } a:visited.catlink { font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; color: #000; } a:hover.catlink { font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; } a:active.catlink { font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000; text-decoration: underline; } echo "<td class='cats' ><center>"; echo "<b><a href='links.php?cat=".$myrow['cat']."' class='catlink'>".$myrow['cat']." </a></b><br>"; echo "</center></td>"; } Is there a way to achieve this effect without using javascript and junk? Hey, I would like to create a tab/erollover effect using css on some links. The problem is I am not sure how to get the whole of my image displayed in the background of the link. So for example if my image is 100px wide, but my text only 40px wide only 40px of my background are displayed. How can I solve this? Hi, I have a question about setting up the Body background-image via a linked external stylesheet. I have a index.html file and a myStyle.css file. I want to setup the background to load an image file, test.JPG. When I embed the following in my index.html, I see the background show up: ** inside index.html file ** <BODY STYLE="background-image: url(test.JPG);"> blah </BODY> BUT, when I define my background in the externally linked myStyle.css file, the background does not load: ** inside myStyle.css file ** BODY { background-image: url(test.JPG); } ** inside index.html file ** <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="myStyle.css"> <BODY> blah </BODY> </LINK> Please help. thanks! I'm trying to create a hover effect that changes the background color behind a link, but instead of ending with the text, the color change extends to the width of the div. It's hard to explain, so here's an example: checkout the sidebar at pastemagazine.com. I've tried dissecting their source code, but they have about 5 different stylesheets and it's really hard to follow. As far as I can tell, this is what makes the hover effect and I just can't figure out how they make the background color change extend beyond the text. I have my links in a ul just as they do and they don't seem to be doing anything else special. Code: #sect1 ul.stories a:hover{
background-color:#d9f7ff;
color: #71808F;
}
Thanks! cae |
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