Div didn't open as a link when I prefer to "modal" - bootstrap-modal

Question

I want to develop image gallery. I want to present each image and its description under it and when I click on an image or text or white space got "modal"
I wrote this for an element in gallery
<div class="m-4 img99">
<a href="#ml">
<img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" class="simg " alt="..." data-toggle="modal" data-target="#ml">
<div class="">
<h5 class="">test</h5>
<p>test</p>
</div>
</a>
</div>
The modal part is
<div class="modal fade" id="ml">
<div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered modal-xl ">
<div class="modal-content">
<!-- Modal Header -->
<!-- Modal body -->
<div class="modal-body ">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-lg-4 ">
<p>
test
</p>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
and CSS part
.simg {
width: auto;
height: 60px;
}
.img99 {
margin-right: auto !important;
margin-left: auto !important;
width: max-content;
height: max-content;
border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
}
My problem is when I click on a text or white space the model didn't work. "when I click on image :the model work normally"
https://codepen.io/ahof920/pen/MWYGRYp?editors=1100
What is the problem?

Answer 1

Replace your HTML with this:
Reason why its not working :
Modal are triggered by following tag's in bootstrap data-toggle="modal" data-target="#ml" and you added those inside <img> tag that's the reason modal is opened when clicked on image. So add data-toggle="modal" data-target="#ml" to <a>.
.simg {
width: auto;
height: 60px;
}
.img99 {
margin-right: auto !important;
margin-left: auto !important;
width: max-content;
height: max-content;
border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Vkoo8x4CGsO3+Hhxv8T/Q5PaXtkKtu6ug5TOeNV6gBiFeWPGFN9MuhOf23Q9Ifjh" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-J6qa4849blE2+poT4WnyKhv5vZF5SrPo0iEjwBvKU7imGFAV0wwj1yYfoRSJoZ+n" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js#1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-wfSDF2E50Y2D1uUdj0O3uMBJnjuUD4Ih7YwaYd1iqfktj0Uod8GCExl3Og8ifwB6" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<div class="shadow2 m-4 img99">
<a href="#ml" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#ml">
<img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" class="simg " alt="...">
<div class="">
<h5 class="">test</h5>
<p>test</p>
</div>
</a>
</div>
<div class="modal fade" id="ml">
<div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered modal-xl ">
<div class="modal-content">
<!-- Modal Header -->
<!-- Modal body -->
<div class="modal-body ">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-4 col-lg-4 ">
<p>
test
</p>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>