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Google Calendar block: links within event description won't open
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Description
When embedding a calendar using Calendar Block, links within the calendar won't open with left-click but do with right-click.
#### Steps to reproduce the issue
1. Create an event in your Google Calendar, and on the description, add a link or hyperlink.
2. Get the embed code by following the steps here: https://wordpress.com/support/google-calendar/#google-calendar-block
3. Go to your post/page editor
4. Add a Google Calendar block > paste the embed code
5. Publish the post/page
6. Try to click the link on the published post/page. See that the link won't open with a left-click.
#### What I expected
Links open with a left-click.
#### What happened instead
Clicking the link with a left-click doesn't do anything, though the link does open with a right-click.
**Screenshot**

**Workaround**
Embed the calendar with the [HTML block](https://wordpress.com/support/google-calendar/#embed-a-google-calendar-with-html).
User report: #25551669-hc
Follow-up: #3479795-zen
I can reproduce the issue on my test site.
I suggested the user embed it with an HTML block instead.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in a published page using the Google Calendar block and a calendar event containing a hyperlink. Read the Google Calendar block entry point and compare its behavior with the HTML block workaround; done means links in the calendar event description open with a left-click.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- wordpress
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100