Hello JoomShaper Support Team,

I am using Joomla 6 with Helix Ultimate and SP Page Builder.

For a guestbook, I am using the Article Add-on in Masonry layout to display multiple Joomla articles together. These articles are intended purely for presentation (image + text). Opening the article detail page does not provide any additional content or value.

The issue: In the Masonry layout, the articles are always clickable, regardless of CSS or JavaScript attempts to disable this behavior. Even when:

all <a> elements are disabled via CSS,

pointer-events: none is applied to all relevant containers,

click events are intercepted via JavaScript (preventDefault, stopPropagation, capture phase, etc.),

clicking an article still triggers navigation to the article detail page.

This behavior does not seem to be controlled by standard DOM events or CSS hover states, but rather by an internal JavaScript mechanism of the Article Add-on itself.

My questions:

Is there an official way to completely disable navigation in the Article Add-on (especially in Masonry layout), e.g. a “read-only” or “static” mode?

If not, is such an option planned or intended?

Alternatively, is there a recommended way to output the article title and image without making them clickable?

I would appreciate a brief technical clarification or recommendation.

Kind regards, Andreas Lauschke