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user2464083
user2464083

Reputation: 1334

Why is the margin space of my image link clickable?

I am building a website for a friend, and part of his specification is that images should include links to view the image in a higher resolution. I enclosed the home image in an anchortag within a div, but I can't figure out why my image's margin space is clickable.

I'm assuming that it has to do with the image being inside of a div?

Here is my jfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9kSL3/5/

Here are the areas of interest:

<div id="home">
<a href="./images/home3.jpg"><img src='http://s17.postimg.org/4glpnzdan/home3.jpg' border='0' alt="home3" /></a>
</div>



#home img{
    width: 60%;
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    /*border-radius: 15px;
    border: 1px;*/
}

What's strange to me is that in this answer: Remove space around clickable image the answer is to use margin instead of padding

Upvotes: 22

Views: 16665

Answers (3)

Eleanor Zimmermann
Eleanor Zimmermann

Reputation: 432

I solved this issue by setting the parent div of the <a> element to text-align: center and the <img> to display: inline.

.parent-div-of-your-a-tag {
    text-align: center;

}

.your-img-class-name {
    width: 100%;     // might not be necessary, I needed them for responsive design
    height: auto;    // see above
    display: inline; // necessary 
}

Upvotes: 1

TimCodes.NET
TimCodes.NET

Reputation: 4699

It's because you have an img using display: block inside an a tag, which is inline.

Move the width: 60% and margin: 0 auto; to the a tag with display: block and add width: 100% to img

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/9kSL3/6/

Upvotes: 26

nagyben
nagyben

Reputation: 938

It's because you've set the image to display as a block element (I assume you did this for centering). If you remove the display: block line and add a section for the #home div as so: #home { text-align: center; }

It should work for you and the margins will not be "clickable"

Upvotes: 3

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