Question

I’m not skilled with CSS, this is one of my first projects. I was trying to make a CSS style for a slider I have, I want something like this:

I’ve made succesfully the inner divs and the button divs, but what troubles me is the index order for the next/previous buttons on the slider.
Here is the HTML:

<div class="slider">
<div><a href="#" id="rhandle">&gt;</a></div>
<div><a href="#" id="lhandle">&lt;</a></div>
<div id="loadingBar"></div>
<div class="slide">
    <div id="leftSlide">
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    </div>
    <div id="rightSlide">
        <img src="images/slides/slide-1.gif" width="259" height="184" alt="slide-1 Image" />
    </div>
    <div style="height:0;line-height:0;display:block;clear:both;"></div>
</div>

and here is the CSS for the slider:

.slider {
height: 329px;
width: 794px;
background: #313131;
margin: 50px auto 80px;
color: #FFF;
}

.slider a#lhandle {
    font-size: 24px;
    color: #FFF;
    background: #4bacfd;
    width: 50px;
    float: left;
    height: 23px;
    padding-top: 150px;
    padding-bottom: 150px;
    margin-top: 6px;
}

.slider a#rhandle {
    font-size: 24px;
    color: #FFF;
    background: #4bacfd;
    width: 50px;
    float: right;
    height: 23px;
    padding-top: 150px;
    padding-bottom: 150px;
    margin-top: 6px;
}

.slider a#lhandle:hover,
.slider a#rhandle:hover {
    color: #4bacfd;
    background: #FFF;
    border: 1px solid #4bacfd;
    width: 48px;
    height: 21px;
}

.slider #loadingBar {
    background: #a0a0a0;
    height: 6px;
}

.slider .slide {
    height: 328px;
    width: 793px;
    position: relative;
}



.slider .slide h1 {
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-size: 24px;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin-top: 50px;
    margin-bottom: 25px;
}

.slider .slide div#leftSlide {
    float: left;
    width: 400px;
    height: 328px;
}


.slider .slide div#rightSlide {
    float: right;
    height: 328px;
    width: 280px;
}

.slider .slide img {
    border: 1px solid #FFF;
    margin-top: 25%;
    margin-bottom: 25%;
}

.slider .slide p {
    display: block;
    text-align: justify;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
    margin-right: 30px;
    margin-left: 30px;
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 28px;
}

This way, the next/previous buttons are below the actual content, when you hover over them, they do not change to “:hover” style. I’ve tryied adding a “z-index: 5” property, but that did not work, how can I achieve this (If there is an easier way, let me know).

Answer 1

z-index will work, you just have to set a position other than static (which is the default value).

Add this to your handles on either side:

z-index:10;
position:relative;

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/QYnVc/

Side note: You can trim down a lot of your redundant CSS by either using common class names for similar elements, or by using multiple selectors for a group of CSS properties. For example:

#rhandle,
#lhandle {
    font-size: 24px;
    color: #FFF;
    background: #4bacfd;
    width: 50px;
    float: left;
    height: 23px;
    padding-top: 150px;
    padding-bottom: 150px;
    margin-top: 6px;
    z-index:10;
    position:relative;
}

#rhandle {
    float: right;
}