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Move page click handler to parent element so click target is larger
See original GitHub issueI’m proposing that the click handler be moved from the a element up to the li element. The current click target in most cases will be a single numeral. I needed to support a larger click target for my use case so I moved the click handler up to the parent element.
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- Created 7 years ago
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Ok, thank you for the explanation. Let’s merge.
np thanks!