I’m using the Custom Header Links component and I’m getting this strange behavior: In my prod instance, clicking a header link reloads Discourse entirely to the target page. In my dev instance (without docker), clicking a header link transitions smoothly to the target page without reloading Discourse. I noticed that: In my prod instance, tags have a data-auto-route="true" attribute. In my dev instance, tags don’t have this attribute. It seems the same kind of problem happened in the past (see here), before the official header components were released.

I created a fork to fix this issue: GitHub - sylque/discourse-custom-header-links2: Same as the official discourse-custom-header-links, but with links moved to the hamburger menu instead of being hidden · GitHub.

Reverting the change from @j.jaffeux breaks internal links in a different way. I wouldn’t use a forked plugin - it just means when this gets fixed for real you won’t receive the changes automatically. The commit in question: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-header-links/commit/bfda9d3b50bd8e027024b62aa0b7e68611248073

Custom Header Links: links reload Discourse

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Johani (Joe) May 4, 2019, 2:51pm 5

This is fixed in the official component, internal links will no longer cause a full page reload.

Thanks for reporting the issue @jack2

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Custom Header Links: links reload Discourse

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