IE6 / IE7 jQuery Fix: Anchor Image Clickable Area

Michael Hartmayer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:45:31 +0000

IE6 and IE7 both experience a problem in which images inside of block elements inside of anchors lose their click ability. Here’s an example:

 href="rss-icon.png">
	 style="display:block; width:100px; height:100px;">
		 src="someImage.png" />
	>
>

Every area of the link remains click-able except for the surface consumed by someImage.png. (Note, this problem will not show in IE8, or FF)

Here’s a very small jQuery plugin I wrote to fix this particular issue.

(function($){
	$.fn.fixClick = function() {
		return this.each(function(){
			$(this)
				.css({cursor:'pointer'})
				.click(function(){
					window.location.href = $(this).attr('href'); 
				});
		});
	}
})(jQuery);

Simply select your target element(s) and use this plugin to make the entire anchor click-able again. Here’s an example:

$(document).ready(function(){
   $('a').fixClick();
});

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Alternating Styles in jQuery (Plug-In)

Michael Hartmayer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:40:02 +0000

This is a little script that I wrote, that lets you easily alternate the style of repeating class elements, or w/e elements you want to select. This is particularly useful for lists, and the like.

function($){
$.fn.styleAlternation = function(aClass, bClass) {
    var i = 0;
    return this.each(function() {
        if (++i % 2 != 0 && aClass!='') {
            $(this).addClass(aClass);
        } else if(bClass!='') {
            $(this).addClass(bClass);
        }
    });
}(jQuery);

The usage is very simple. Here’s the JavaScript:

$("#awesomeTable tr").styleAlternation("cssClass1","cssClass2");

From there, all you need to do is create your CSS. Example:

.cssClass1 { background: #000; color: #444; }
.cssClass2 { background: #999; color: #333; }

Here’s a screenshot:

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IE6 / IE7 jQuery Fix: Anchor Image Clickable Area

Alternating Styles in jQuery (Plug-In)