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zigojacko

Reputation: 2063

Making link clickable within a CSS3 hover 'after' pseudo element

I've set up some image hover styling based on this tutorial which creates the hover styling using the before and after pseudo-elements.

Works (and looks) great but I need to be able to insert buttons/links within the hover content but due to this being styled on the pseudo-elements, the after is preventing the buttons/links to be clickable.

It looks like the below, I've set up a jsfiddle to demonstrate what I am wanting to do - as you'll notice, the link isn't clickable on hover and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a simple way of making this link clickable without having to completely change the way this is structured.

Default State

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Hover State

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.media {
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
  vertical-align: top;
}

.media__image { display: block; }

.media__body {
  background: rgba(41, 128, 185, 0.7);
  bottom: 0;
  color: white;
  font-size: 1em;
  left: 0;
  opacity: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 3.75em 3em;
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  -webkit-transition: 0.6s;
  transition: 0.6s;
}

.media__body:hover { opacity: 1; }

.media__body:after,
.media__body:before {
  border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);
  bottom: 1em;
  content: '';
  left: 1em;
  opacity: 0;
  position: absolute;
  right: 1em;
  top: 1em;
  -webkit-transform: scale(1.5);
  -ms-transform: scale(1.5);
  transform: scale(1.5);
  -webkit-transition: 0.6s 0.2s;
  transition: 0.6s 0.2s;
}

.media__body:before {
  border-bottom: none;
  border-top: none;
  left: 2em;
  right: 2em;
}

.media__body:after {
  border-left: none;
  border-right: none;
  bottom: 2em;
  top: 2em;
}

.media__body:hover:after,
.media__body:hover:before {
  -webkit-transform: scale(1);
  -ms-transform: scale(1);
  transform: scale(1);
  opacity: 1;
}

.media__body h2 { margin-top: 0; }

.media__body p { margin-bottom: 1.5em; }
<div class="media">
    <img class="media__image" src="http://lorempixel.com/400/300/animals" alt="" />
    <div class="media__body">
        <h2>Cool Title</h2>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <a href="/mylink">consectetur adipisicing</a> elit. Nesciunt laboriosam voluptatem necessitatibus cum, tenetur repellat, eaque eos debitis! Quaerat.</p>
    </div>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1498

Answers (2)

Fabrizio Calderan
Fabrizio Calderan

Reputation: 123397

A CSS3-only (actually moved into CSS4 specs) solution would be the pointer-events property, e.g.

.media__body:hover:after,
.media__body:hover:before {
  ...
  pointer-events: none;
}

supported on all modern browser but only from IE11 (on HTML/XML content)

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/8uz7mx6h/

Another solution, supported also on older IE, is to apply position: relative with a z-index to the paragraph, e.g.

.media__body p { 
  margin-bottom: 1.5em; 
  position: relative;
  z-index: 1;
}

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/0nrbjwmg/2/

Upvotes: 6

Vivekraj K R
Vivekraj K R

Reputation: 2558

.media__body p { margin-bottom: 1.5em; 
position: relative;
z-index:999;

}

try this !

Upvotes: 1

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