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[Feature] Clickable Containers
On appsmith, we only have buttons, icon buttons to click actions but there is no way to design a custom-looking button. Basically, a widget that has a canvas and can be clicked.
Great idea, Should this be a separate widget all together, Why I say that is because an widgets inside this widget which can have an onclick action will create confusion for both the end user and developer. In a new widget we can place some constrains to manage such situations
@jsartisan rethinking about this, i feel we could use a container right? What are some use cases you can think about
@somangshu The use-case is let's say I have a stat box that looks like a card. I want to go to a specific page on click on it.
@jsartisan can you tell me if adding the onClick property works or that will create a bottleneck for us later?
This is something I feel is missing, since the other button types can be a bit too restrictive. It feels quite natural for the container widget to have on-click
Thanks for the opinion here @dominusmi, This will help us prioritise further
@dilippitchika Can you confirm whether we will create a new widget or extend the existing container widget to have this feature?
I dont see why we need another widget? Seems like a lot of work for the end user if they have to just add a onClick action on a pre-existing container. Open to discussion though
No, i don't think we need another widget. It's just like the list's onItemClick functionality. Very basic and useful, @jsartisan already worked on this but he didn't figure out the part where onClick should not be triggered if there's a button in the container which is also getting clicked.
Understood, I think if the button is getting clicked we should only fine the button onClick event, The onus would be on the user. We will only follow the basic event bubbling principles
Greetings @Bisht13 thanks for showing interest 🎉 , This is all your. Assigning this to you now.
Please don't forget to read the Contribution Guidelines. Would appreciate if you can open a PR within the next 2 days. let us know here
@dilippitchika @Bisht13 I have the need in my company as well. I have a dashboard with several clickable cards. The current way of having just clickable buttons suffers from 2 UX issues:
- Users need to click the button in order to trigger an action
- The button takes up screen real estate, especially if there are repeatable components on the page
What is the status of this? Is there any way to support in the development of this feature? :rocket: :computer: :runner:
