Stop Opening Links in New Tabs

[Joe Fedorowicz]

Hi everyone, 

Designing my next site model, and navigation automatically opens external links (even subsites or the parent, ie) in a new tab. This makes navigation difficult. Seems to me that I'm missing something, but maybe not. 

Any way to change this action? Thanks.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

While I'm seeing this new tab pattern in many of the new stuff released by Microsoft (Groups are a clear example) IMHO is not happening on all Office 365...can you be more specific about your design? I assume you are using modern team sites and if so, I think the default behaviour by desing (just a guess) is to open links on new tab...however if you are still on classic SharePoint, this pattern is not happening...at least from my experience

[#3]

Modern sites. This shouldn't be a hard thing to give the option on. Hoping it changes.

[#4]

Not sure this will happen if they consider this is by design :(

[#5]

I would hope they wouldn't expect navigation, even to sub/parent sites, to warrant a new window each time. External sites? Sure, I can see that. But shouldnt be to the sub/parent sites.

[#6]

I'm seeing this as well. Very confusing and unintuitive.

I have posted an idea on the sharepoint uservoice addressing the issue.

Please vote it up to get some attention on it!

Thanks 

[#7]

I'm seeing this also, it's going to make it challenging to get better users adoption.

[#8]

I see that links now open in the same tab. However this is not always the right thing for all people. An option for the user to select opening in a new tab or not could be a setting. (I have looked and cannot find such a setting... However I may not be able to find it.) Is indeed it possible to allow this either as a browser wide setting or perhaps on a page by page by page basis? This may involve a slight design change.

I DO know however that sites can be coded to do this by the author of the site and it making this a browser wide setting may break site and he intended action of the author so perhaps it can be made to honor the authors intended action when it encounters a site so coded even if such a setting is available.

@Joe Fedorowicz