Make background image clickable with other links and elements inside the same div

Question

Right now the code below generates the content seen here:

Currently the title has to be clicked for the post page to be loaded, but I want to allow the entire background image to be clickable. Is this possible? I've tried surrounding the card div with the tag from the title code, but that still did not let me click the background image like a link.

<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('card-box col-lg-4 col-md-6 col-sm-12 col-xs-12'); ?>>
    <div class="card" data-background="image" data-src="<?php esc_url( the_post_thumbnail_url( 'large' ) ); ?>">
             <div class="header">
                    <?php
                    $categories = get_the_category();
                    if ( ! empty( $categories ) ) {
                    ?>                                                          
                        <div class="category">
                            <h6>
                                <span class="category">
                                    <?php  echo '<a class="category" href="' . esc_url( get_category_link( $categories[0]->term_id ) ) . '">' . esc_html( $categories[0]->name ) . '</a>'; ?>
                                </span>
                            </h6>
                        </div>
                    <?php } ?>                        
                </div>
                <div class="content">
                    <?php the_title( '<h4 class="entry-title"><a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h4>' ); ?>
                    <span class="date"><?php echo esc_html( get_the_date() ); ?></span>
                </div>
                <div class="filter"></div>
                </div> <!-- end card -->
        </article>

Answer 1

Try jQuery approach like below

$('.card').on('click', function(event){
  var elementTag = event.target.tagName.toLowerCase();
  if(elementTag === 'div') {
     var pageurl = $(this).find('.entry-title a').attr('href');
     window.location.href = pageurl;
  }
});`