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Quicklinks - open in a new tab
- I agree - terrible user experience. The even more frustrating part is that some links to internal assets (on the SharePoint site) DO open in a new tab and some do not. I'm not sure how SharePoint decides which behavior to use, but there doesn't seem to be any way to modify the behavior. Inconsistent user experience is even worse than an overall poor design.
Msft has overcomplicated this - you can see the default behavior by inspecting links added to the text web part. The data-interception tag is set to "on" by default, forcing same tab behavior. If you check "open in a new tab", data-interception is "off" and the standard target="_blank" tag is added and isn't overridden. Clearly Sharepoint detects if a link is internal and adds data-interception="on" to force it to open in the same tab, UNLESS (and this is where it gets silly), you're on a system page (like a library). How they come up with this logic is beyond me.
It would be simple to add the open in new tab option to the quick links web part to defeat the default behavior, regardless of whether the link is internal or external, but Msft has ignored the numerous complaints about this - as usual - and the end result is they're just pushing the use of all the url shortening apps out there.mattchowellThere isn't any way to modify the default logic is there?
