CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user316602
user316602

Reputation:

Make A List Item Clickable (HTML/CSS)

So I'm trying to make each list-item on my site clickable but I'm not sure what is the best way to do it. Please help me out.

So here is the relevant HTML:

<ul>
    <li>Backpack <a href="#" title="Buy on Amazon" target="_blank"><img src="img/basket.png" height="16" width="16" alt="Buy" class="buy" onClick="pageTracker._trackEvent('Amazon', 'School Supplies', 'Backpack');"/></a></li>
    <!-- More List Items -->
</ul>

And here is the relevant CSS:

.content ul li {
    display:block;
    list-style:none;
    padding:5px 10px 5px 15px;
}

.content li li {
    // This is for when there are sub-categories.
    border-bottom: none;
    border-top: 1px solid #f8d9d0;
    margin: 3px -10px -3px -15px;
    padding: 5px 0px 5px 30px;
}

.buy {
    float: right;
    margin-top: -2px;
}

// The next ones all deal with the shopping cart icon that appears only on hovers.

.listblock ul li img { 
    visibility: hidden;
}

.listblock ul li:hover img { 
    visibility: visible;
}

.listblock ul li ul li img { 
    visibility: hidden !important;
    margin-right: 10px;
}

.listblock ul li ul li:hover img { 
    visibility: visible !important;
    margin-right: 10px;
}

How can I make the whole list-item clickable and still have the shopping cart icon and Google Analytics Event tracking still work? Is there some jQuery magic I can use?

I've tried using display:block for the Amazon links, but that seems to mess up the image placement.

Thank you so much!

Upvotes: 25

Views: 161749

Answers (8)

webtech
webtech

Reputation: 329

Here is a working solution - https://codepen.io/dragoeco/pen/YMJYqW (edit: dead link http://jsfiddle.net/STTaf/)

I used simple jQuery:

$(function() {
    $('li').css('cursor', 'pointer')

    .click(function() {
        window.location = $('a', this).attr('href');
        return false;
    });
});

Upvotes: 9

PK-1825
PK-1825

Reputation: 1489

HTML and CSS only.

#leftsideMenu ul li {
  border-bottom: 1px dashed lightgray;
  background-color: cadetblue;
}

#leftsideMenu ul li a {
  padding: 8px 20px 8px 20px;
  color: white;
  display: block;
}

#leftsideMenu ul li a:hover {
  background-color: lightgreen;
  transition: 0.5s;
  padding-left: 30px;
  padding-right: 10px;
}
<div id="leftsideMenu">
  <ul style="list-style-type:none">
    <li><a href="#">India</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">USA</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Russia</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">China</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Afganistan</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Landon</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Scotland</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Ireland</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Upvotes: 5

joefly
joefly

Reputation: 171

The key is to give the anchor links a display property of "block" and a width property of 100%.

Making list-items clickable (example):

HTML:

<ul>
    <li><a href="">link1</a></li>
    <li><a href="">link2</a></li>
    <li><a href="">link3</a></li>
</ul>

CSS:

ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
ul li a {
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 5px;
}
ul li a:hover {
  background-color: #ccc;
}

Upvotes: 16

Alan
Alan

Reputation: 337

The li element supports an onclick event.

<ul>
<li onclick="location.href = 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3486110/make-a-list-item-clickable-html-css';">Make A List Item Clickable</li>
</ul>

Upvotes: 21

Istvan Nonn
Istvan Nonn

Reputation: 21

I'm sure it is a late response, but maybe is useful for somebody else. You can put all your <li> element content into <a> tag and add the following css:

li a { 
    display: block; 
    /* and you can use padding for additional space if needs, as a clickable area / or other styling */ 
    padding: 5px 20px; 
}

Upvotes: 2

Paul Schreiber
Paul Schreiber

Reputation: 12599

Ditch the <a href="...">. Put the onclick (all lowercase) handler on the <li> tag itself.

Upvotes: 4

Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang

Reputation: 50165

I think you could use the following HTML and CSS combo instead: 

<li>
  <a href="#">Backback</a>
</li>

Then use CSS background for the basket visibility on hover:

.listblock ul li a {
    padding: 5px 30px 5px 10px;
    display: block;
}

.listblock ul li a:hover {
    background: transparent url('../img/basket.png') no-repeat 3px 170px;
}

Simples!

Upvotes: 26

Nikita Rybak
Nikita Rybak

Reputation: 68046

How about putting all content inside link?

<li><a href="#" onClick="..." ... >Backpack <img ... /></a></li>

Seems like the most natural thing to try.

Upvotes: 2

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