How to make the HTML link activated by clicking on the <li>

Question

I have the following markup,

<ul id="menu">              
    <li><a href="#">Something1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Something2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Something3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Something4</a></li>
</ul>

The <li> is a bit big, with a small image on its left, I have to actually click on the <a> to activate the link. How can I make a click on the <li> activate the link?

Edit1:

ul#menu li
{
    display:block;
    list-style: none;
    background: #e8eef4 url(images/arrow.png) 2% 50% no-repeat;
    border: 1px solid #b2b2b2;
    padding: 0;
    margin-top: 5px;
}

ul#menu li a
{

    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
    line-height: 2.8em;
    padding-right:.5em;
    color: #696969;
}

Answer 1

#menu li { padding: 0px; }
#menu li a { margin: 0px; display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

It may need some tweaking for IE6, but that's about how you do it.

Answer 2

You could try an "onclick" event inside the LI tag, and change the "location.href" as in javascript.

You could also try placing the li tags within the a tags, however this is probably not valid HTML.

Answer 3

As Marineio said, you could use the onclick attribute of the <li> to change location.href, through javascript:

<li onclick="location.href='http://example';"&gt; ... </li>

Alternatively, you could remove any margins or padding in the <li>, and add a large padding to the left side of the <a> to avoid text going over the bullet.

Answer 4

The following seems to work:

ul#menu li a {
    color:#696969;
    display:block;
    font-weight:bold;
    line-height:2.8;
    text-decoration:none;
    width:100%;
}

Answer 5

How to make the HTML link activated by clicking on the <li> ?

By making your link as big as your li: just move the instruction

display: block;

from li to a and you are done.

That is:

#menu li
{
    /* no more display:block; on list item */

    list-style: none;
    background: #e8eef4 url(arrow.gif) 2% 50% no-repeat;
    border: 1px solid #b2b2b2;
    padding: 0;
    margin-top: 5px;
}

#menu li a
{
    display:block; /* moved to link */
    font-weight: bold;
    text-decoration: none;
    line-height: 2.8em;
    padding-right:.5em;
    color: #696969;
}

Side note: you can remove "ul" from your two selectors: #menu is a sufficient indication except if you need to give weight to these two rules in order to override other instructions.