Turn an Entire DIV into a Clickable Link

If you have been to a Pinterest like site that uses the grid masonry style layout, you may have noticed that one can hover over any region inside the box and its clickable.

A typical DIV is written using the following markup

    
Box Title
    
The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog
    
Webpage URL

There’s a outer DIV and it has elements like the title, description and a link. The requirement is that when someone hovers their mouse over the DIV, it should point to the hyperlink that’s contained inside the DIV.

This can be done in two ways – using CSS or using jQuery.

The CSS approach – Make the Whole DIV clickable