diff --git a/steward/static/steward.css b/steward/static/steward.css
index 45a9077..a7459cc 100644
--- a/steward/static/steward.css
+++ b/steward/static/steward.css
@@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ strong, b, th { font-weight: 500; }
 /* The Docker page's one-line answer, above its tiles (#5298). */
 .page-verdict { margin: 0 0 0.75rem; font-size: 0.95rem; }
 .table tr.row-off > td { opacity: 0.55; }
+/* A row that opens as a whole: its one .row-target link stretches over the
+   row, and the actions cell sits above it so its buttons keep their own
+   clicks. One real link per row, so keyboard and screen readers meet it once. */
+.table tr.row-link { position: relative; cursor: pointer; }
+.table tr.row-link .row-target::after { content: ""; position: absolute; inset: 0; }
+.table tr.row-link .td-actions { position: relative; z-index: 1; cursor: auto; }
 .table td.nowrap { white-space: nowrap; }
 .cell-note { font-size: 0.78rem; color: var(--text-muted); margin-top: 0.2rem; }
 /* An alert episode's own transitions, folded under it (#5316). */
diff --git a/steward/templates/alerts/list.html b/steward/templates/alerts/list.html
index f04e4d8..27ac079 100644
--- a/steward/templates/alerts/list.html
+++ b/steward/templates/alerts/list.html
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {# alerts/list.html — the Alerts page (#5315): the verdict and what is active
    (alerts/_active.html, polled), then every rule: what it is doing now and
-   when it last fired, what it fires on, and its History and Disable. A rule's
-   name opens it; deleting one is on its own page, behind the confirm dialog. #}
+   when it last fired, what it fires on, and its History and Disable. The
+   whole row opens the rule (.row-link, its name is the link); deleting one is
+   on its own page, behind the confirm dialog. #}
 {% extends "base.html" %}
 {% block title %}Alerts — Steward{% endblock %}
 {% from "_macros.html" import page_header, status_badge, empty_state %}
@@ -36,9 +37,9 @@
         <tbody>
             {% for rule in rules %}
             {% set fired = (last_fired or {}).get(rule.id) %}
-            <tr{% if not rule.enabled %} class="row-off"{% endif %}>
+            <tr class="row-link{% if not rule.enabled %} row-off{% endif %}">
                 <td class="cell-name">
-                  <a href="{{ ('/alerts/rules/' ~ rule.id ~ '/edit') if can_edit else ('/alerts/history?rule=' ~ rule.id) }}" title="{{ rule.name }}">{{ rule.name }}</a>
+                  <a class="row-target" href="{{ ('/alerts/rules/' ~ rule.id ~ '/edit') if can_edit else ('/alerts/history?rule=' ~ rule.id) }}" title="{{ rule.name }}">{{ rule.name }}</a>
                   <div class="cell-sub">{{ source_label(rule.source_module) }}</div>
                 </td>
                 <td>
diff --git a/tests/core/test_alerts_page.py b/tests/core/test_alerts_page.py
index 14b7bba..b94c4d3 100644
--- a/tests/core/test_alerts_page.py
+++ b/tests/core/test_alerts_page.py
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ async def test_an_operator_sees_the_sentence_linked_and_can_acknowledge(app):
     assert '<span class="badge badge-crit">Firing</span>' in page
     assert 'action="/alerts/r1/acknowledge"' in page
     assert 'href="/alerts/rules/new"' in page and 'href="/alerts/rules/r1/edit"' in page
+    # The whole row opens the rule: one stretched link, the row marked for it.
+    row = page[page.index('<tr class="row-link'):]
+    row = row[:row.index("</tr>")]
+    assert row.count('class="row-target"') == 1 and 'class="row-target" href="/alerts/rules/r1/edit"' in row
     assert 'action="/alerts/rules/r1/delete"' not in page  # deleting a rule is the admin's
     main = page[page.index("<main"):]  # the sidebar brand mark carries its own colours
     assert "onclick" not in main and not hex_colours(main), hex_colours(main)
@@ -222,7 +226,7 @@ async def test_rules_say_what_each_is_doing_now(app):
     rules = page[page.index(">Rules</h2>"):]
     assert '<span class="badge badge-crit">Firing</span>' in rules
     assert 'title="Within its threshold">quiet</span>' in rules
-    assert '<span class="tone-dim">off</span>' in rules and 'class="row-off"' in rules
+    assert '<span class="tone-dim">off</span>' in rules and 'class="row-link row-off"' in rules
     assert 'hx-get="/alerts/active"' in page