Marquee Text issue?

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Am I going insane or is there a major bug with the text marquee?

No matter whether I use a CMS connection or velo to assign a link to the text, it doesn’t work.

When I click the link button on the marquee text it shows me this:

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But when I try to assign the link with the CMS there’s no option to do so?

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If I try to set the link using code, it simply doesn’t work. No errors, just doesn’t route to the link.

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Yet the API says this is the correct way to assign a link https://dev.wix.com/docs/velo/velo-only-apis/$w/text-marquee/link

And even if I put the link directly in the code, it still doesn’t do anything.

So what am I doing wrong? (Wix Classic Editor).

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Thanks for the feedback. I raised this to the relevant team as I also see the same with Text Marquee.

As a workaround, I put the text marquee inside a container.

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Then I used CSS to turn off pointer events (this disables mouse events so you can’t pause the text marquee on hover nor click) and used Velo to direct users to the necessary page/site. This ends up working since by disabling pointer events on the text marquee, users click the parent container.

Here’s the code and feel free to use custom classes and update the IDs as needed.

CSS:

 .text-marquee {
    pointer-events: none;
}

Velo:

import wixLocation from 'wix-location';

$w.onReady(function () {
  $w("#box1").onClick(() => {
    wixLocation.to('https://wixvault.com'); // Navigates to a page/site
  });
});