External link not working when placed on images

[acr523]

I'm trying to create a hyperlink on images and while the link will come through, it is not on the image but rather creates it's own div behind the image. When going into developer tools, the code displays as an anchor tag and then the image rather than the anchor wrapped around the image. I can't seem to find any reason as to why this is happening. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[jmslbam]

Have you checked the "return as Array" options and call

$link = get_field('acf_link_key');
$link = $link['url];

?

[Jeradin]

Thanks for answering this jmslbam