Can we make internal links open in the same target rather than a new window/tab?

[s-p-n]

I'm writing a book, basically, in the tutorials section. I feel there's a need for a tutorial on creating an MMO from scratch, since this forum is an MMO Development Community. But there's a problem. Every time I link to a different thread, the browser opens up a new tab. I was thinking, this happens all over the forum for internal and external links. If I receive a like, when I look at the thread, it opens in a new tab. It happens everywhere! I end up with 10 ragezone tabs open.

I think it would work better if external links (links to google.com for example) open up in a new tab. But internal links (to other ragezone forum pages) should open up in the same tab. Is it too much work to have it function like that?

 

[The General]

I'm not sure what you're talking about but general browsing doesn't open a new tab to me. Only when I hold ctrl key which is for chrome to open a link in a new tab.

Think it is a browser issue on your end.

 

[s-p-n]

Hm, it doesn't happen on other sites. Maybe there's a user setting on ragezone or something. I'll poke around.

Edit: It happens on firefox, too (using chrome default). It only happens when I click links in threads or comments. For example, from the forum home, clicking on this thread opens in same tab. But if I click the link to my tutorial within this thread, it opens in a new tab. Checking user settings now.

 

[MentaL]

everything is in the primary browser except external links that'll be using "_blank".

 

[The General]

I see what you mean, looks like it has something to do with the text parser that it doesn't recognize the ragezone domain properly?

 

[s-p-n]

I use the advanced wysiwyg editor (CKEditor), if that matters. I like it because I can copy/paste highlighted JavaScript code into

 tags rather than [php] tags.

Edit: Didn't see any user setting for this.

Edit2: Here is the code I get from the chrome inspector for the link in this thread:
[code]
<a title="1.) MMO From Scratch - Introduction" href="!1092707!f578/1-mmo-scratch-introduction-1092707/" target="_blank">a book, basically, in the tutorials section</a>

edit: For some reason, when I save it's changing 'http://forum.ragezone.com/f578/1-mmo-scratch-introduction-1092707/' to '!1092707!f578/1-mmo-scratch-introduction-1092707/' lol, *facepalm*
The href is absolute, but it's like that with all links.. For example, the link to Suggestions section:

<a href="http://forum.ragezone.com/f600/" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="title">Suggestions</span></a>

It should be possible to check if the link starts with 'http://forum.ragezone.com' and make the target '_self' or just not define a target.

Edit:

Also, if you goto your profile and click Post Thanks / Like- then click on the post that someone liked, that opens in a new tab. It does not open in a new tab under Quotes, Mentions, or Suggestions.

 

[MentaL]

Testing

Internal; http://forum.ragezone.com/f578/1-mmo-scratch-introduction-1092707/
External;

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working.