I found myself really needing to use the Slideshow option in the HTML module, AND being able to click on hyperlinks. On our site, we don't need to be able to switch to the next pane in the slideshow by clicking, because we are showing the pager.

In the documentation, it says this:

Note: Links you place within the elements of a slide show will not be clickable. You can work around this by adding some JavaScript code to your links as follows:

onclick="window.open(this.href,'_self');return false; "

Sad to say, but there's no way our editors could handle such a workaround. Simple for developers. Impossible for marketers. Nor can we instruct our users to right-click on a hyperlink. They need it to be seamless.

Well, here's an easier way. Just disable the click event for the slideshow. I inserted the bold text below into the $(document).ready() script block of the skin's master document (layout.Master). (If the master document doesn't have a $(document).ready() block, create one.)

$(document).ready(function() {

   ...

   $(".slidecontainer").off("click");  

});

It's the "slidecontainer" class div that fires the click event to move to the next slide. This one line turns off the mouse click on the slider. The pager still works. And hyperlinks in the content work normally for users.

CORE TEAM: This could probably be handled with a simple setting option in the module's code, which works only if the pager is enabled.