Links inside of larger clickable areas (CSS Only)

Question

Here's a good article on creating links inside of larger clickable areas:

http://css-tricks.com/links-inside-of-larger-clickable-areas/

This solution requires JavaScript. At the end of the article, there's a broken link to a CSS-only solution (so apparently it can be done), but I can't figure out how this would be done with CSS only. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Doesn't seem too difficult to me (JSFiddle).

HTML:

<header>
    <a href="#1">Clickable</a>
    <nav>
        <ul>
            <li>
                <a href="#2">Clickable</a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#3">Clickable</a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#4">Clickable</a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#5">Clickable</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
</header>
​

CSS:

a { color: #f4ebd4; font-family: sans-serif; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 0.8em; }

header { text-align: center; }

header > a { display: block;  line-height: 100px; }

header > a, header > a + nav { background: #4b885c; }
a:hover, a:hover + nav { background: blue; }

nav ul { display: table; width: 100%; }
nav li { display: table-cell; }
nav a { display: block; background: #a51d2c; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 10px; }
​