Text linking not available in CMS

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Why doesn’t WIX let me embed links to text using CMS. It’s industry standard to embed text links to text, but for some reason WIX doesn’t allow this basic functionality. The only way to create links to other pages is to use images or buttons, but not text. Just bizzare.

Take a look at every single other web content management system, e.g Wordpress, Joomla, ModX etc, and it’s the most obvious way to create links to other pages, but not in WIX. I really do wonder if WIX developers are actually users of their own products as this basic functionality is a given.

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You can do with with a simple piece of WIX Velo.

  1. Run code to get the current dataset item
const item = $w("#dynamicDataset").getCurrentItem();
  1. Enable the text on click event.
$w('#myText').onClick((event) => {
        
})
  1. Reference the Item returned from the dataset and assign it on the click.
const url = item.linkUrl;

if (url) {
  wixLocation.to(url); // Navigate to the URL
} else {
  console.warn('No URL found in the current dataset item.');
}

That is at a high level, you will need to put it all together.