div background color, to change onhover

Ionut_G_Stan_58808 0
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I'm trying to make a div's background color change on mouse over.

the div {background:white;}
the div a:hover{background:grey; width:100%;
display:block; text-decoration:none;}

only the link inside the div gets the background color.

what could I do to make the whole div get that background color?

thank you

EDIT :
how can I make the whole div to act as a link - when you click anywhere on that div, to take you to an address.

hover background colors css
10 Answers

The "a:hover" literally tells the browser to change the properties for the <a>-tag, when the mouse is hovered over it. What you perhaps meant was "the div:hover" instead, which would trigger when the div was chosen.

Just to make sure, if you want to change only one particular div, give it an id ("<div id='something'>") and use the CSS "#something:hover {...}" instead. If you want to edit a group of divs, make them into a class ("<div class='else'>") and use the CSS ".else {...}" in this case (note the period before the class' name!)

Henrik_Paul_22380

Using Javascript

<div id="mydiv" style="width:200px;background:white" onmouseover="this.style.background='gray';" onmouseout="this.style.background='white';">
  Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
</div>

ChanLFC_654120

To make the whole div act as a link, set the anchor tag as:

display: block

And set your height of the anchor tag to 100%. Then set a fixed height to your div tag. Then style your anchor tag like usual.

For example:

<html>
<head>
    <title>DIV Link</title>

    <style type="text/css">
    .link-container {
        border: 1px solid;
        width: 50%;
        height: 20px;
    }

    .link-container a {
        display: block;
        background: #c8c8c8;
        height: 100%;
        text-align: center;
    }

    .link-container a:hover {
        background: #f8f8f8;
    }

    </style>

</head>
<body>

    <div class="link-container">
        <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">Stack Overflow</a>
    </div>

    <div class="link-container">
        <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">Stack Overflow</a>
    </div>

</body> </html>

Good luck!

Admin1

Set

display: block;

on a and give some height

presario_666110

You can just put the anchor around the div.

<a class="big-link"><div>this is a div</div></a>

and then

a.big-link {
background-color: 888;
}
a.big-link:hover {
 background-color: f88;
}
user_4463350

you could just contain the div in anchor tag like this:

a{
  text-decoration:none;
  color:#ffffff;
}
a div{
  width:100px;
  height:100px;
  background:#ff4500;
}
a div:hover{
  background:#0078d7;
}
<body>
<a href="http://example.com">
<div>
Hover me
</div>
</a>
</body>

user_124278120

Just make the property !important in your css file so that background color doesnot change on mouse over.This worked for me.

Example:

.fbColor {
    background-color: #3b5998 !important;
    color: white;
}
user_90510690
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