Just wondering if this is possible.
I am trying to create a rollover link effect for a button bar on a page I'm designing, without actually using rollover links that change the picture being displayed in the <div> as the mouse rolls over the image. I am trying to place a div inside of an anchor... <a><div></div></a> like so. Then in CSS I was trying to make the link, visited and hover classes for the link apply the different styles and changing colors and so forth. Having done so, passing the cursor over the text in the div causes it to change color, but the cursor does not change to indicate that it is a link, and I can't get any other style change to take effect. Is there any way that this is possible? Or is such an approach not supported?
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by: VirusMinusPosted on 2007-02-15 at 13:24:07ID: 18544045
CSS allows you to change the cursor icon.
eg. a.myLink{cursor:pointer}
also, its semantically incorrect to put a div (block level element) inside of an <a> (inline element)
you could make the link itself a block element and give it dimensions;
eg. a.myLink{
display:block;
float:left;
width:100px;
height:20px;
border:1px solid red;
background:gray;
}
or just put paddings on a hyperlink, which won't make it a fixed width and height but it will be like a button around the text depending on the text size.
a.myLink{padding:10px 20px;}