post title clickable

i found something out! i edited the content-blogreg.php and wrote this:

<strong><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"></strong><div class="blog-article-right">
						<h2 class="blog-article-title-reg"> %3$s <strong></a></strong></h2>

My posts titles are now clickable, BUT the link is broken. It looks like this: https://www.domain.com/the_permalink();?>

what happened?

Well first off your syntax is a little messy.

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<div class="blog-article-right">
<h2 class="blog-article-title-reg"> %3$s </h2>
</div>
</a>

You were missing a closing div tag, putting strong tags in the wrong places and closing tags in the wrong order. In the example above I completely removed the use of tags, I would do this with CSS in the above scenario.

you only posted a fraction of the involved code;

it seems that the code is part of a string output;

I guess you could try:

<div class="blog-article-right">
					<a href=' . get_permalink() . '"><h2 class="blog-article-title-reg"> %3$s </a></h2>

if in doubt, post the full code of the template.

@robert
the strong tags came from the post formatting here.

@alchymyth
you did it! your code works fine. that is exactly what i wanted. thank you so much! ??