Category boxes links

[rogerco]

That’s quite a clever trick. Sara says:

You may have already noticed the major limitation to this technique: the post excerpt’s text is covered by the pseudo-element, which makes that text unselectable. If you try to select the text to copy it, you won’t be able to.

This was a compromise the Smashing team were okay with after testing the design with their users. The inability to select the text wasn’t an issue, as not many users attempted to make that selection.

Personally I think that for a category box this would probably be ok. If a user wanted to select and copy anything it would most likely be the category title and/or description and both would be available by clicking the box and viewing the category (especially if the Category Banners component was in play)