Walker_Blackwell suggests making the entire topic list element (td) a link to the topic, with a light blue background hover effect. However, Stephen and codinghorror raise concerns that this could cause issues due to the presence of other clickable elements, such as tags and category links, within the same region. Additionally, this approach may not translate well to mobile devices, which lack mouseover effects. Walker_Blackwell proposes using z-index to allow whitespace behind categories and tags to link to the topic, but acknowledges that this may not be feasible.
Right now if you see a list of topics you have to click the very specific title text to get to the topic.
My suggestion is to make the entire topic link element (generally a td) a link with a background hover of light blue so you know you can click. There’s no other items in the element to click on so why not make the whole thing a fat juicy link?
best,
Walker
Possibly, though as I recall doing this requires markup changes.
But there are other elements which can be interacted with in that region of the topics list:
If the goal is to use mouseover to imply ‘this is a big button’ then there are going to be areas where said mouseover is triggered, but the user won’t end up at the topic when they click.
There’s no parity for mobile either, due to the lack of mouseover.
I had forgotten the very-near-tag links.
Got it.
best,
W
Ah yes, and with the coming change to put category (along with tags) underneath the title this change becomes even less viable. Sorry about that.
Still would be nice if possible to do w/ z-index so white-space behind cats/tags on full-size site goes to topic . . .
But if not, no big deal! Just a thought.
best,
Walker