Allow large interactive areas

[draganescu]

What problem does this address?

Sometimes we want a whole group of related visual items to have the same interaction (click, tap, keydown) result. For example in social media feeds sometimes the whole feed item links to the "detail" page. The feed item includes number of replies, the content, maybe other information too.

The gist is to allow making HTML5 anchors which support just about any element set inside (including div) as long as none are interactive elements.

What is your proposed solution?

Make a group link block which does not allow buttons, videos etc as child? No idea really.

[jordesign]

I had a user in the forums asking about exactly this yesterday.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/column-clickable/?view=all#post-16919822

[stokesman]

Related #45959, #42935, #29136, #12684

The oldest issue I think has the most discussion. There’s plenty of longing for this and various ideas for solutions but there are either enough difficulties or downsides to have kept them from being pursued.

I’ve worked on a branch that tries the route of a new block. It's workable but no sure-winner. I could make a PR for it to try and help us evaluate that idea.

[Marc-pi]

yep, that's indeed needed a least on Column ....
example : product list per column, the whole "card" should be clickable
see the Pricing Table 3 columns pattern, that could be enhanced with such an option

[mateitudor]

it's been 84 years