Make clickable area of object links larger

[Michael Newman]

Per a ​django-dev discussion, The objects in admin should provide more room for users to click on. This patch changes the link's anchor tag to display black with will fill the whole cell.

[Will Hardy]

Introducing large clickable areas in the admin site

[Will Hardy]

Added a slightly different implementation: the clickable area now fills the vertical area, for single line rows and links within the table body are not changed, and still operate as normal html links (e.g. fields that generate html tags).

[Will Hardy]

Includes fix for all 'list_display_links' fields, excluding 'allow_tags' fields

[Will Hardy]

Ok, here's what I understand needs to be done:

• standard edit links and field listed in list_display_links made bigger (fill the whole cell)
• any other links (e.g. using allow_tags on a field) should not be affected
• The dashboard should also function with the bigger links

I've added another patch that implements these changes, because fields added in list_display_links are not inside a <th> field. A class had to be added to the HTML to distinguish links added automatically through list_display_links from those done through allow_tags. The "edit" and "delete" links on the dashboard have not been changed.

Should the status be changed from Accepted back to Unreviewed?

[Will Hardy]

Online patch preview problems, removed an EOL difference

[Ben Spaulding]

I respectfully disagree with Will on the execution of this idea. 99 percent of the time the user is wanting to hit that big, bold link on the left. Other links rendered by the use of the list_display_links option have always been visually treated as secondary (11px normal type instead of the 12px bold used for the usual link). Changing that treatment is not productive because too much of the page could become big and bold.

Further, the clickable area of those secondary links should not be enlarged because their behavior would then be inconsistent with their visual treatment. Thus my patch makes the clickable area of big & bold links bigger and leaves all else alone.

[Ben Spaulding]

Only enlarge clickable area of links in th elements

[Ben Spaulding]

Fixed ill effect on object history tables and accounted for admindoc model list.

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Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[Julien Phalip]

This is essentially a UX question so I'm flicking the component field for this ticket to appear on the UX people's radars. At this stage we need at least a final design decision for the approach to follow.

[Jacob]

Julian: Alex and I are happy to let you make the decision, so go for it!

[Julien Phalip]

I have updated benspaulding's patch to current trunk. It doesn't mean that I'm endorsing it. In fact, I'm struggling to see how useful all this really is. I'm going to take this to django-ux (will post link here when that's done).

[Florian Apolloner]

Closing as per Julien's last comment.