CSS Problem on div and link

I have a problem on divs and links. I have a particular <div> before a link. I want that div to change its background image when the link is active. Is that possible on css?

I'm not really into designing web apps cause I'm really into programming. Please help me with this one. Thanks.

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I'm not completely sure, but I think that you can't style ancestor elements with CSS.

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Sorry for not making it clear. I am making a menu button.
I created one of its button using
As you can see I used the first and last divs not to position the image but to hold images. so I can have a round end for my menus.

I used a.active on css to change the background of my link whenever clicked or visited. My problem now is that I can't change the left and right divs background image on click of the link. Any ideas? Thanks

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you don't have left and right divs. unless you changed the display or float properties, your divs are above and below.

what exactly is a "round end"?

maybe a transparent (transparency containing) gif will do?

or maybe that

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I am using a gif for the background. I can't load all the images for my menu buttos because my links have different sizes. It will cost much memory space. any suggestions?

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images are not loaded twice, and they are cached on the browser (except when the expires header or the browser cache is set to 0). further, you can stretch an image simply by changing its height/width attributes.

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I tried the code you had given but I can't use it because I got an image that has link in it. and the center top of my background doesen't have a link. Still sir I'm curious if it is possible to change my div after activating a link?

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I'd need a link to the page to give better advice (currently I don't have a clear picture what the page looks like)

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How can I upload images here?

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post a reply, then push the "edit" button, there you have (further down, under options) a button "manage attachments".

alternatively link to an image on a server using the [img] tags

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Heres the attached image of my menu.

Youll notice the menu buttons above the blue bar.
I used the same html code stated on my previous post. One button contains 3 elements. a left div, a link and a right div. If I click the link I can change the background picture of the link but I also want to change the divs in it.

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re: CSS Problem on div and link

something like that?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors2/

re: CSS Problem on div and link

You can't do it the way you have it. If you can place the images without using the divs then wrap the anchors around the images. Then you can use CSS selectors to change the background.

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Dormilich, thats what I needed. Thanks a lot.

drhowarddrfine, Your right. Thanks for the advice.