Make Images clickable in Multicolumn on spotlight theme

Topic summary

A user sought help making images clickable within the Multicolumn section of Shopify’s Spotlight theme.

Solution Provided:

  • Navigate to Online Store → Themes → Edit code
  • Locate and edit the multicolumn.liquid file
  • Insert an anchor tag (<a>) wrapper before the image div element at the specified location
  • Add CSS code to the section-multicolumn.css file to disable cursor on non-linked multicolumn cards
  • Code snippets and screenshots were provided to guide the implementation

Outcome:
The solution was successfully implemented and confirmed working by the original poster.

Summarized with AI on November 5. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

How do I go about getting my images in the multicolumn clickable on the spotlight theme? I see other threads about this but pertaining to the other themes. If possible, please include pictures of how to do this. Thanks in advance.

@jladi90 Please follow below steps to make images clickable in multicolumn on spotlight theme,

  1. From admin go to “Online Store” → “Themes”.
  2. Click “Edit code” button from the current theme.
  3. Go to “multicolumn.liquid” file.
  4. Then search “multicolumn-card__image-wrapper multicolumn-card__image-wrapper” in search bar.
  5. Then paste the below code before the div like below attached image and then save changes.

  1. Then search use the “\n ” in the same file in search field and paste the below code after the searched key word as like attached screenshot,

  1. Go to “section-multicolumn.css” file and paste the below code in the bottom of the file and save the changes.
.multicolumn-card a:not([href]) {
  cursor: auto;
}

Please provide your support by click “Like” and “Accepted” if our solution works for you. Thanks for your support.

2 Likes

Thank you so much. It worked!