Expand anchor to size of container

This is a follow up to:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27186052/Change-CSS-based-on-Status-of-another-element.html

The anchor now changes color properly, but now I need the whole box to be the "clickable" area for the link.

How do I do that?

CSS

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DrDamnit

8/22/2022 - Mon

Gregg

7/8/2011

try adding css style to anchor style.

display: block;

Gregg

7/8/2011

an anchor tag is inline by default. So when you create a link in html text it keeps its position in text. You can change that setting by using display css attribute. Setting the link to block creates the effect you are trying to achieve.

See below:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
ul { 
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	width: 300px;
}

li {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

li a {
	display: block;  /* Change display to block here. */
	background-color:#FFCC66;
}

li a:hover {
	background-color: #99CC66;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.experts-exchange.com">Experts Exchange</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

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Hagay Mandel

7/8/2011

Try this

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#menu-main-navigation-menu li, #menu-main-navigation-menu li a {
      float:right;
      position:relative;
      display:block;
      
      font-size:22px;
      background-color:#0078e6;
      color:white;
      text-decoration: none;
	  width:200px;
	  height:30px;
	  text-align:center;
}

#menu-main-navigation-menu li:hover, #menu-main-navigation-menu li:hover a  {
      background-color:#ffc300;
      color:#000000;
      text-decoration: none;
	  display: block;
 
</style>
</head>

<body>
<ul id="menu-main-navigation-menu">
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.cnn.com">CNN</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

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DrDamnit

7/8/2011

ASKER

Block no worky... or... me no understand-y....

#menu-main-navigation-menu {
	list-style:none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	width: 570px;
	float:right;
	border-color:blue;
	border-style:solid;
	border-width:thin;
	
}

#menu-main-navigation-menu li {
	float:right;
	position:relative;
	display:inline;
	padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
	border-color:red;
	border-style:solid;
	border-width:thin;
	font-size:22px;
	background-color:#0078e6;
}

#menu-main-navigation-menu li:hover {
	background-color:#ffc300;
}

#menu-main-navigation-menu li a {
	color:white;
	text-decoration:none;
	display:block;
}

#menu-main-navigation-menu li:hover a {
	color:#000000;
}

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7/8/2011

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