Beta 1 - Clickable Columns?

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#1

Hi, I thought columns were going to be clickable links in this release? is this already in the beta and I can’t find it, or yet to come?

Much thanks

#2

Yes! We’re pushing it with the archive mode. Sorry, there are a few things that will be available in all builders but are still flagged off - we built this on the archive branch considering it is essential to blog layouts.

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#3

Thanks for the update

#4

:+1:

#5

Hey, just wanted to followup here since we’ve starting merging the archive builder for the next beta and I was double checking this feature. When we get the next beta pushed out, you can turn it on by setting the Tag of a layout element to <a> (it’s <div> by default) which will make a Link control appear. It will also change how the rendering of all nested elements works. Because nesting anchors is invalid HTML, we strip them out and replace them with spans or divs depending on the context.

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#6

Thank you… good to have the heads up on this, I see it as being a very development for psuedo button designs

#7

Yes, and on that note we’re realizing that we may have more work to do in terms of interaction management. For example, the whole column is clickable, but if you had a button with hover interactions it doesn’t trigger until your mouse is on the button. We’d like to find a way to let you enabled synchronizing all interactions in the child elements to the linkable element’s hover state.

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#8

Was just going to flag this. Tried the a tag column link and that’s amazing, though bringing in the hover colours would be so useful!
Even to a point of letting backgrounds be changed on hover, too.

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#9

@RubberDuckers We don’t have anything setup for the background layers, but most other colors and even triggering colors on child element interactions is possible now. Take a look at some of the notes here: Linkable Layout Elements + Interaction Chaining Discussion

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#10

Oh you do spoil us @alexander!

#11

Thanks! Definitely a big joint effort with @kory. As mentioned on that thread there are a few things we want to polish up like particle behavior, but overall we’re really happy with how it turned out and glad we could make it part of the Layout Builder update.