---
id: url-state/rows-are-still-not-links
title: "Rows are still not links"
theme: url-state
status: open
created: 2026-08-20
date_source: assumed
order: 1
---

**Rows are still not links.** This is the half that did not get done, and it is the original
finding. Both list and grid render `<div onDoubleClick>` (`FileItem.tsx:701,748`), and search
results render `<div onClick>` (`FileViewContainer.tsx:187`) — the "opaque click" that
`docs/navigation-audit.md` names. No cmd-click into a new tab, no middle-click, not
link-focusable, and the target lives in a closure rather than the DOM.

It is now much easier than it was: `folderHref(path)` gives a folder's URL and `hrefForPath` gives
a full `To` with the overlay already stripped, so a row becomes
`<Link to={hrefForPath(childPath)}>` and a file row becomes a link that sets `?view=<name>`. The
breadcrumb has done exactly this since before today and is the model.

Watch for: a row is also a click target for SELECTION (single click selects, double opens,
shift/cmd extend). An anchor changes what those gestures mean by default, so the selection
handlers have to keep working and `preventDefault` where they win.