make a whole div a link

There is no href attribute for the div. So to make an entire div a link, you have to wrap it inside an anchor tag.

See the example HTML below.

<a href="link-to-another-page">
  <div>
    <h2>This is a heading</h2>
    <img src="./img/car-wash.jpg" alt="car wash">
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit.</p>
  </div>
</a>

In the above code, you see that I have a couple of HTML elements such as a heading, image & paragraph. All these elements live inside a <div>. And this whole div is wrapped by an anchor tag (<a>).

This is how you can make a whole div a link. If you click anywhere in the div no matter if it’s a heading, image, paragraph, button, or something else, it will redirect you to another page (that you linked to).

With the above HTML, the output looks like the screenshot below.

I made this entire div a clickable link

You really don’t need CSS to make the clickable div work. However, you may need some basic styling for it.

For the above screenshot & the HTML, I have the following CSS.

div {
  background-color: #D4FFD1;
  max-width: 900px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 15px;
}
div a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: initial;
}

And it brings me to the end of this post.

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Conclusion

Now you know how to make a div that acts like a link. And this clickable div can contain any HTML element.

After you wrap the <div> inside the <a> tag, all the heading, text, etc may have an underline & the color may turn blue. But this you can fix/override by CSS (that I showed you above).