jQuery - Make entire element clickable


	jQuery - Make entire element clickable

VernonK

6-29-2009 9:17 AM

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This trick is very useful when you're using UL list to make a menu. What it does is, when you click on the LI area (outside of the link), it will search for the url in the anchor tag and execute the link:
<DIV class="dp-highlighter"><DIV class="bar"><DIV class="tools"><A href="#">view plain</A><A href="#">copy to clipboard</A><A href="#">print</A><A href="#">?</A></DIV></DIV><OL start="1" class="dp-c"><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN>$(</SPAN><SPAN class="string">"ul li"</SPAN><SPAN>).click(</SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">function</SPAN><SPAN>(){  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>  <SPAN class="comment">//get the url from href attribute and launch the url</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>  window.location=$(<SPAN class="keyword">this</SPAN><SPAN>).find(</SPAN><SPAN class="string">"a"</SPAN><SPAN>).attr(</SPAN><SPAN class="string">"href"</SPAN><SPAN>); </SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">return</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="keyword">false</SPAN><SPAN>;  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>});  </SPAN></LI></OL></DIV><PRE class="javascript" name="code">	$("ul li").click(function(){
	  //get the url from href attribute and launch the url
	  window.location=$(this).find("a").attr("href"); return false;
	});
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<DIV class="dp-highlighter"><DIV class="bar"><DIV class="tools"><A href="#">view plain</A><A href="#">copy to clipboard</A><A href="#">print</A><A href="#">?</A></DIV></DIV><OL start="1" class="dp-xml"><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">ul</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>    <SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">li</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">a</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">href</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"home"</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>home</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">a</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">li</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN>    <SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">li</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">a</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">href</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"home"</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>about</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">a</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">li</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class=""><SPAN>    <SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">li</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">a</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN class="attribute">href</SPAN><SPAN>=</SPAN><SPAN class="attribute-value">"home"</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>contact</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">a</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">li</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI><LI class="alt"><SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&lt;/</SPAN><SPAN class="tag-name">ul</SPAN><SPAN class="tag">&gt;</SPAN><SPAN>  </SPAN></SPAN></LI></OL></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/44A4C28D-DA37-4562-8055-23FA77F12B91/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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