Div with link css

CSS Links

With CSS, links can be styled in many different ways.

Styling Links

Links can be styled with any CSS property (e.g. color , font-family , background , etc.).

Example

In addition, links can be styled differently depending on what state they are in.

The four links states are:

• a:link — a normal, unvisited link
• a:visited — a link the user has visited
• a:hover — a link when the user mouses over it
• a:active — a link the moment it is clicked

Example

/* unvisited link */
a:link color: red;
>

/* visited link */
a:visited color: green;
>

/* mouse over link */
a:hover color: hotpink;
>

/* selected link */
a:active color: blue;
>

When setting the style for several link states, there are some order rules:

Text Decoration

The text-decoration property is mostly used to remove underlines from links:

Example

a:visited text-decoration: none;
>

a:hover text-decoration: underline;
>

a:active text-decoration: underline;
>

Background Color

The background-color property can be used to specify a background color for links:

Example

a:link <
background-color: yellow;
>

a:visited background-color: cyan;
>

a:hover background-color: lightgreen;
>

a:active background-color: hotpink;
>

Link Buttons

This example demonstrates a more advanced example where we combine several CSS properties to display links as boxes/buttons:

Example

a:link, a:visited <
background-color: #f44336;
color: white;
padding: 14px 25px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
>

a:hover, a:active background-color: red;
>

More Examples

Example

This example demonstrates how to add other styles to hyperlinks:

Example

Another example of how to create link boxes/buttons:

a:link, a:visited <
background-color: white;
color: black;
border: 2px solid green;
padding: 10px 20px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
>

a:hover, a:active background-color: green;
color: white;
>

Example

This example demonstrates the different types of cursors (can be useful for links):

COLOR PICKER

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How to Make a Div a Clickable Link

The first solution uses CSS absolution position, which is a bad practice most of the time. You can scroll down to see the other solution.

Create HTML

Create CSS

• Set the position to «absolute» for the inner tag.
• Use the z-index property to place the link above all the other elements in the div.

.container < font-size: 5em; background-color: #a8a8a8; color: white; width: 8em; height: 2em; line-height: 2; text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; position: relative; > .link < position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; z-index: 1; >

Example of making a div a clickable link:

HTML> html> head> style> .container < font-size: 5em; background-color: #a8a8a8; color: white; width: 8em; height: 2em; line-height: 2; text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; position: relative; > .link < position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; z-index: 1; > style> head> body> div class="container"> W3Docs a href="https://www.w3docs.com/"> span class="link"> span> a> div> body> html>

Result

You can also use the nested inside a hyperlink.

Second solution: making a div a clickable link by nesting it in the tag:

HTML> html> head> style> a < display: block; background: orange; padding: 20px; text-align: center; > style> head> body> a href="https://www.w3docs.com/learn-html/html-introduction.html"> div> This is a clickable div. div> a> body> html>

As the div takes place inside the anchor tag, the anchor tag covers all the div’s area, and thus the div becomes a clickable link.

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