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Links dont open new pages.

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This might be tough to describe, but it's something I noticed a couple weeks ago.

When somebody posts a link in a forum post, clicking the link takes the CURRENT page and transports you to that link destination.

Like right now, if I posted a link to http://www.google.com and you clicked on it, this page would "go away" and Google would load.

In all of the other forums I spend time on, links either load new pages or new browser tabs parallel to the current one.

For example, lots of us here, I think, are members over at the Tallahassee Gun Forum.

If you go over to this thread and click on the link in the first post, your browser will launch a new tab (if you use a browser like Chrome or Firefox or even the newest version of Internet Explorer from MS.

I think it's something in how BBF has been coded to handle URLs.

I'm not a website creator guy, but I did a little looking around and it seems that these are classified as either "Internal" links or "External" links.

Here's an article about it.

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Well sonofabitch...now I'm even more confused. All those links i just posted in my example thread appear to be "external" links like I am trying to describe. Standby.
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Ha! Have you been drinking? :-)
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Maybe it's just youtube videos that open as internal links.

Testing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZcRU0Op5P4
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Yeah, see - if you click my youtube link it opens internally.

It's annoying because my tendency is to close tabs when I am done viewing something - not hit the back button, but what ends up happening is that I close the tab that had BBF in it, and I have to reload the page from the front.

Anyway...just a small thing...
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WolfeMan wrote:Yeah, see - if you click my youtube link it opens internally.

It's annoying because my tendency is to close tabs when I am done viewing something - not hit the back button, but what ends up happening is that I close the tab that had BBF in it, and I have to reload the page from the front.

Anyway...just a small thing...
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Ummm, why not just simply right click on the link, and click "open in new window". Problem solved!


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Re: Links dont open new pages.

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Of course I know how to work around it - but it seems silly to have to.

Why should Youtube links behave differently than literally, every other link on the site?

Like I said, it's a tiny issue; but it's an issue none the less.

Dig it?

Anyway, Bevis knows about it now - maybe he can address it with his web guru.

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