Slider image link – Whole image

[Lars]

Is it somehow possible to get the entire slider image to ba a link, not just that button up in the corner? Its kinda hard for the end user to catch that there even excists a link.

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello,

This will be a customization you’ll need to make to the theme, but can be pretty easily accomplished with style modifications. I’ll share a CSS snippet that’s been floating around that should help since I get this question quite often.

.element-slider .slide .image-link,
.element-slider .slide .image-link:hover {
    background-color: #fff; /* Triggers the anchor in IE */
    background-image: none;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    filter: alpha(opacity=0);
    -moz-opacity: 0;
    -khtml-opacity: 0;
    opacity: 0;
}

For CSS changes, it’s a good idea to use a tool like firebug or Google Chrome’s built-in developer tools to locate them and then put the edits either in your child theme or in the “Custom CSS” option on your theme options page.

Also, here’s a helpful tutorial on how to use Firebug – http://vimeo.com/20917974. The only thing I’d suggest not doing is actually making edits to the theme’s CSS files, as it shows at the end of that video. However, the video serves as a good introduction to Firebug and how it can be used to find what CSS is effecting certain areas of your site without ever digging around in any files.

[Lars]

Excellent! This has been a big drawback for us. Thanks a bunch!

[josephklem]

I’m using Alyeska, and my whole slider image is clickable EXCEPT the text overlay. Is there any way I can make that clickable, too? Thanks. You can see my home page at http://bluemontcommunications.com/.

[Jason Bobich]

Unfortunately, this is not possible because the text in a separate container from the image of the slide and its wrapping link. It works like this because users can be putting clickable elements within the description.

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