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INTRODUCING

Wrapper Link

Wrapper link for Elementor — make an entire container clickable, so a whole card links without stacking anchors inside.

KERBSIDE
ISSUE 14 · SPRING 2026
Free to read until 3 April. After that it goes behind the members’ wall.
THIS WEEK

Three things the council hoped you would miss

OUR DESKS

Four beats, one obsession

Every desk works the same way: read the papers nobody reads, then knock on the door of whoever signed them.

THE ARCHIVE

Fourteen issues, all of it still true

Nothing goes offline. Corrections are printed under the original, dated, and we keep the version we got wrong.

WHERE IT ENDED UP

Cited in the papers that decide things

We do not chase scoops. We chase the moment a number we published turns up in a committee pack with our name in the footnote.

41
citations in council papers this year
6
policies withdrawn or rewritten
EACH MARK LINKS TO THE PIECE THAT CITED US
WHO WRITES IT

Four staff writers and a very good FOI lawyer

Nobody here has a press officer on speed dial. That is the point.

IN PRINT

Still the best way to read a 12,000-word piece

Printed in Sheffield · ships worldwide on Tuesdays
KERBSIDE LIVE

We read the papers out loud, in a pub

One reporter, one councillor, one document nobody has opened. Free to members, £8 to everyone else, and the first round is on the magazine.

All venues step-free. Transcripts posted within a week.
Kerbside is published four times a year in Manchester. ISSN 2755-0114.
FAQ
Frequently asked

Wrapper Link

Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.

Still stuck?

Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.

How do I make a whole Elementor card clickable?

Select the container holding the card and open its Layout tab, where Sky Addons for Elementor adds a Wrapper Links section with a single Link field. Paste the destination and the entire box — image, heading, description and padding — becomes one click target instead of only the button inside it.

Which elements can carry a wrapper link?

Sections, containers, columns and individual widgets, so you can make a whole band of the page clickable or just one image. It sits on the Layout tab for sections, containers and columns, and on the Content tab for a widget — always on the element you want to be the target.

Why not just link the card heading and the button?

Because a visitor aiming at a card expects the whole thing to respond, and separate links leave dead zones between them. Nesting a real anchor around an entire card is also invalid HTML once there is a link inside it, which is exactly the situation a wrapper link avoids.

Can the wrapper link open in a new tab or be nofollow?

Yes. The field is Elementor’s standard link control, so the little gear gives you Open in new window and Add nofollow. External links open in a new tab and nofollow links are sent with a nofollow noreferrer relationship, exactly as they would be on an ordinary button.

Can the destination come from a custom field?

Yes. The link field accepts Elementor dynamic tags, so a card inside a loop can point at its own post, a custom field URL or an ACF value rather than a hard-coded address. That is what makes one card design reusable across every item in a listing.

Is the wrapped element a real HTML link?

No. The element stays a div carrying the destination as a data attribute, and a click script sends the visitor there. That is a deliberate trade — it avoids invalid nested anchors — but it also means the new-tab choice comes from your Link settings rather than from how the visitor clicks.

Will search engines follow a wrapper link?

No. Because no anchor tag with an href is written into the page, a crawler sees no link to follow and the destination gains nothing from it. Always keep one genuine link inside the card — a title link or a read-more button — so the page still connects properly.

Can keyboard users activate a wrapper link?

Not on the wrapper itself. No tabindex or button role is added, so the clickable box cannot be reached by tabbing or triggered with Enter. Treat it as a convenience for pointer users and make sure a real focusable link inside the card leads to the same place.

Will visitors know the card is clickable?

The cursor tells them. As soon as a link is set, the element renders with a pointer cursor, so hovering anywhere over the card gives the usual hand icon rather than a text caret. Adding your own hover shift, shadow or border in Elementor makes the affordance clearer still.

Does the wrapper link extension need Elementor Pro?

No. It ships in the free Sky Addons plugin and works on free Elementor, including the classic section and column structure as well as flexbox containers. Any widget can carry one, third-party widgets included, since the link is attached to the element wrapper rather than to the widget’s own markup.