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MattVarney
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Jan 30, 2018
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Modern Communication sites - display links issue

Hi all,   We have a modern Communications site on which we are trying to display links for the site visitors, but have run into an issue (possible bug) and wanted to see if anyone is experiencing...
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    Nigel Witherdin
    Jan 31, 2018

    Hi - I made a custom list to contain links, including a 'category' choice field

    And then displayed it on a modern page using the "List (preview)" web part:

     

    The links are clickable in this web part and open the target page as expected

     

    Thanks

     

    Nigel

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Pat Beautz
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Jul 22, 2019

I'm happy to report that it looks like Microsoft has finally fixed this issue!  In a modern page, URL links will now open up in a new browser tab.  I've tested this in Edge and Chrome.

 

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DanielDiVenosa
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Jun 07, 2021

Pat Beautz& MattVarney  That's correct, but the very important information is, that it works only with the column "Name (linked to document with edit menu)". If you use as example "Name (linked to document)" it doesn't work.

 

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