I believe what you might be missing is a specified width for the anchor tags to fill the buttons. Your stylesheet's "ul.menu li a", or equivalent, needs a "width: 100%;" added.
Christian Bradford On 7/29/05, Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. That's what I thought. I'm using > display:block, so I must have some other error or something in there. I'll > go through the style sheet line by line again and see if I can see what's > negating the display:block . > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > > > > Cheers > > Mike Kear > > Windsor, NSW, Australia > > Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > > AFP Webworks Pty Ltd > > http://afpwebworks.com > > Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 29 July 2005 8:19 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Making CSS Buttons active > > > > > > You need to use the property "display:block;". I suggest you see some of the > great examples at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Michael Kear > > > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > > > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 8:10 PM > > > Subject: [WSG] Making CSS Buttons active > > > > > I'm building a site with a navigation button stack in the left column, and > I'm trying to figure out how to make the whole button active. I know I've > seen it happening somewhere but I can't find an example right now. Can > anyone show me how that is achieved? > > > > I'm not sure if I'm making myself clear, but when I style the nested list, > I get nice buttons being displayed, and when the cursor hovers over the word > in the button, the hover effect works fine, but when the cursor is over the > button but not over the word, the hover effect doesn't work. If I have a > button that's a lot wider than the word (for example on the "home" button > where the active area of the button is far smaller than "sign up now" > > > > I know I've seen this with java applets, but I sure don't want to go down > that road again – I have that on my own site now and it's a pain. I felt > certain there was a way using nested lists and CSS to make the entire button > area clickable. Isnt there? > > > > > > Cheers > > Mike Kear > > Windsor, NSW, Australia > > Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > > AFP Webworks Pty Ltd > > http://afpwebworks.com > > Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month > > > > > > > >
