Should the whole div box be linked or individual elements within it?

[Kerry_Jones]

Hey

I've got a question about linking within a div box.

Say you have a title, an image and a short paragraph within a div box all referring to an internal page on your site. Should you link the whole div box to the internal page, or link the items within it individually e.g. the title, image and text individually?

Thanks in advance

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Kerry,

This really depends, in most cases people only link the specific elements instead of the whole DIV box. For example what we did at TNW is: http://take.ms/tibb9 making the summary not clickable while the other elements in a featured posts are. I think that will make it more clear for users what they can click on instead of clicking by accident on something and then being redirected.

The best answer would be to test this to see how users react to this. So set up your A/B testing tool ;-).