Make a div into a link

Question

I have a

block with some fancy visual content that I don\'t want to change. I want to make it a clickable link.

I\'m looking for something l

Answer 1

This is a "valid" solution to achieving what you want.

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But most-likely what you really want is to have an tag displayed as a block level element.

I would not advise using JavaScript to simulate a hyperlink as that defeats the purpose of markup validation, which is ultimately to promote accessibility (publishing well-formed documents following proper semantic rules minimizes the possibility the same document will be interpreted differently by different browsers).

It would be preferable to publish a web page that does not validate, but renders and functions properly on all browsers, including ones with JavaScript disabled. Furthermore, using onclick does not provide the semantic information for a screen reader to determine that the div is functioning as a link.