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I need to know how to add an a href link to a div? Do you put the a href tag arounf the entire "buttonOne" div? Or should it be around or inside the "linkedinB" div?

Here's my HTML:

<div id="buttonOne">
  <div id="linkedinB">
    <img src="img/linkedinB.png" width="40" height="40">
  </div>
</div>
Pang
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Wardenclyffe
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  • This post had some CSS some minutes ago and I created a http://jsfiddle.net/n3ckB/ of it. Enjoy! – Igbanam Jun 15 '12 at 19:26
  • There was a time when a tags were anchors on hypertext. Hence, divs had no anchors around them because they were no real content but content wrappers. Young boys skipped ye olde Interweb times... :) – Alfabravo Jun 15 '12 at 19:29

6 Answers6

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Can't you surround it with an a tag?

  <a href="#"><div id="buttonOne">
        <div id="linkedinB">
            <img src="img/linkedinB.png" width="40" height="40">
        </div>
  </div></a>
Philip Kirkbride
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try to implement with javascript this:

<div id="mydiv" onclick="myhref('http://web.com');" >some stuff </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function myhref(web){
      window.location.href = web;}
</script>
Contributor
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In this case, it doesn't matter as there is no content between the two divs.

Either one will get the browser to scroll down to it.

The a element will look like:

<a href="mypageName.html#buttonOne">buttonOne</a>

Or:

<a href="mypageName.html#linkedinB">linkedinB</a>
Oded
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Try creating a class named overlay and apply the following css to it:

a.overlay { width: 100%; height:100%; position: absolute; }

Make sure it is placed in a positioned element.

Now simply place an <a> tag with that class inside the div you want to be linkable:

<div id="buttonOne">
  <a class="overlay" href="......."></a>
    <div id="linkedinB">
       <img src="img/linkedinB.png" alt="never forget the alt tag" width="40" height="40"/>
    </div>
 </div>

PhilipK's suggestion might work but it won't validate because you can't place a block element (div) inside an inline element (a). And when your website doesn't validate the W3C Ninja's will come for you!

An other advice would be to try avoiding inline styling.

jbouaziz
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Carlo Palinckx
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I'd say:

 <a href="#"id="buttonOne">
            <div id="linkedinB">
                <img src="img/linkedinB.png" width="40" height="40">
            </div>
      </div>

However, it will still be a link. If you want to change your link into a button, you should rename the #buttonone to #buttonone a { your css here }.

Dirk de Man
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Your solutions don't seem to be working for me, I have the following code. How to put link into the last two divs. 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">

<style>
/* Import */
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Quicksand:300,400);
* {
  font-family: "Quicksand", sans-serif; 
  font-weight: bold; 
  text-align: center;  
  text-transform: uppercase; 
  -webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease; 
  -moz-transition: all 0.25s ease; 
  -ms-transition: all 0.25s ease; 
  -o-transition: all 0.025s ease; 
}

/* Colors */

#ora {
  background-color: #e67e22; 
}

#red {
  background-color: #e74c3c; 
}

#orab {
  background-color: white; 
  border: 5px solid #e67e22; 
}

#redb {
  background-color: white; 
  border: 5px solid #e74c3c; 
}
/* End of Colors */

.B {
  width: 240px; 
  height: 55px; 
  margin: auto; 
  line-height: 45px; 
  display: inline-block; 
  box-sizing: border-box; 
  -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; 
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box; 
  -ms-box-sizing: border-box; 
  -o-box-sizing: border-box; 
} 

#orab:hover {
  background-color: #e67e22; 
}

#redb:hover {
  background-color: #e74c3c; 
}
#whib:hover {
  background-color: #ecf0f1; 
}

/* End of Border

.invert:hover {
  -webkit-filter: invert(1);
  -moz-filter: invert(1);
  -ms-filter: invert(1);
  -o-filter: invert(1);
}
</style>
<h1>Flat and Modern Buttons</h1>
<h2>Border Stylin'</h2> 

<div class="B bo" id="orab">See the movies list</div></a>
<div class="B bo" id="redb">Avail a free rental day</div>

</html>
Faheem Ahmad
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