stop Hyperlink in sharepoint online open new tab

[william41550]

Hello!

I have a picture with hyperlinks in sharpont online, but i want to stay in the same tab when klicking.

It opens a new tab, and it will be som many tabs thats confusing, is there i solution for this to stay in the same tab?

[#2]

SharePoint will automatically open in a new tab if the URL to the item isn't using your tenant's SharePoint URL. I had the opposite issue, where I wanted to open links in a new tab rather than the current tab. I used some Javascript and the Modern Script Editor to make that work.

https://steveknutson.blog/2023/05/20/sharepoint-quick-links-open-in-new-tab/

You could do the opposite with a small modification to the code I used. Change the a.target="_blank"; to a.target="" and change the startsWith URL.

I hope that helps.

[#3]

I installed modern scriprt app and changed the code but i did not work for me. Hyperlinks in dokument still opens in new tabs. I am no expert at java, but i paste the exatly code.
Seems like hyperlinks always opens a new tab, still the link is in the tenant.

[#4]

@william41550 Try _self instead of _target: 

a.target="_self";

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[#5]

It does not work, still opens a new tab when i click on hyperlinks in a ppt , the links are in the same tenant. if i do a quicklink it opens in the same tab , but not hyperlinks in a dokument.
Any suggestions?

[#6]

@william41550 That is a default behavior in SharePoint to open the hyperlinks inside the document/PPT content in new tabs.

Unfortunately, you cannot override this behavior even with the modern script editor and HTML/CSS/JS.

Above code and modern script editor will only work for the anchor tags (<a>) / hyperlinks which are directly available in the DOM structure of a SharePoint page - like for links in quick links web part, site navigation links, links in text web part, etc.

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