How to create a circle with links on border side

Question

I am trying to make a circle like this. I was able to make it in the fiddle, but the problem is that I need each orange side to be a link and I can't do it with borders. If anyone can help me with this I will be really grateful.

#circle {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: green;
}
#incircle {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 50px dotted orange;
}

<div id="circle">
  <div id="incircle"></div>
</div>

Answer 1

Here's a fiddle.

HTML

<div id="circle">
    <a id='left' href='left'></a>
    <a id='right' href='right'></a>
    <div id="mid"></div>
</div>

CSS

#circle{
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
}

a {
    height: 100%;
    width: 49%;
    background: orange;
    display: block;
}

#left {
    float: left;
}

#right {
    float: right;
}

#mid {
    border-radius: 50%;
    background: green;
    border: 4px solid white;
    position: absolute;
    display: block;
    height: 50%;
    width: 50%;
    left: 24%;
    top: 24%;
}

This can be trivially expanded to 4 parts instead of 2 by splitting up the a's vertically. However I recommend you look at something like RaphaelJS . You could even cheat and use a pie chart!

Answer 2

I was trying to use pure css, And came up with this:

.wrap {
  height: 200px;
  width: 200px;
  background: red;
  border-radius: 50%;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.wrap:after {
  position: absolute;
  height: 50%;
  width: 50%;
  content: "";
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: green;
  left: 25%;
  top: 25%;
}
.slice {
  height: 0;
  width: 0;
  border-left: 200px solid blue;
  border-top: 200px solid transparent;
  position: absolute;
  top: -100px;
  left: -100px;
}
.part2 {
  border-left: 200px solid red;
  border-top: 200px solid transparent;
  transform: rotate(180deg);
  top: -100px;
  left: -100px;
}
.part3 {
  border-left: 200px solid pink;
  border-top: 200px solid transparent;
  transform: rotate(90deg);
  top: -100px;
  left: 100px;
}

<div class="wrap">
  <a href="#" class="slice"></a>
  <div class="slice part2"></div>
  <a href="#" class="slice part3"></a>
</div>

However, this is using the "border trick" to generate the blue div, and this would make part of it clickable. However, I do feel this when adapted, could work.

• Or, if you were interested/open to using SCSS this
• Or, you could use this as a basis for your design

Something like

var items = document.querySelectorAll('.circle a');

for(var i = 0, l = items.length; i < l; i++) {
  items[i].style.left = (50 - 35*Math.cos(-0.5 * Math.PI - 2*(1/l)*i*Math.PI)).toFixed(4) + "%";
  
  items[i].style.top = (50 + 35*Math.sin(-0.5 * Math.PI - 2*(1/l)*i*Math.PI)).toFixed(4) + "%";
}

document.querySelector('.menu-button').onclick = function(e) {
   e.preventDefault(); document.querySelector('.circle').classList.toggle('open');
}

@import "http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css";

body {
  background: #39D;
}

.circular-menu {
  width: 250px;
  height: 250px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  position: relative;
}

.circle {
  width: 250px;
  height: 250px;
  opacity: 0;
  
  -webkit-transform: scale(0);
  -moz-transform: scale(0);
  transform: scale(0);

  -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-out;
  -moz-transition: all 0.4s ease-out;
  transition: all 0.4s ease-out;
}

.open.circle {
  opacity: 1;

  -webkit-transform: scale(1);
  -moz-transform: scale(1);
  transform: scale(1);
}

.circle a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: white;
  display: block;
  height: 40px;
  width: 40px;
  line-height: 40px;
  margin-left: -20px;
  margin-top: -20px;
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;

}

.circle a:hover {
  color: #eef;
}

.menu-button {
  position: absolute;
  top: calc(50% - 30px);
  left: calc(50% - 30px);
  text-decoration: none;
  text-align: center;
  color: #444;
  border-radius: 50%;
  display: block;
  height: 40px;
  width: 40px;
  line-height: 40px;
  padding: 10px;
  background: #dde;
}

.menu-button:hover {
  background-color: #eef;
}

/* Author stuff */
h1.author {
  text-align:center;
  color: white;
  font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-weight: 300;
}

h1.author a {
  color: #348;
  text-decoration:none;
}

h1.author a:hover {
  color: #ffffd;
} 

<nav class="circular-menu">

  <div class="circle">
    <a href="" class="fa fa-home fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-facebook fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-twitter fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-linkedin fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-github fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-rss fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-pinterest fa-2x"></a>
    <a href="" class="fa fa-asterisk fa-2x"></a>
  </div>
  
  <a href="" class="menu-button fa fa-bars fa-2x"></a>

</nav>