Force page refresh on a link click

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Force page refresh on a link click

The discussion revolves around finding a way to force a full page refresh when a link is clicked, rather than the modal and editor persisting on the screen. Farhan_Hossen explains the issue and tries adding target="_blank", which doesn’t work. sam acknowledges the difficulty of this issue and mentions that it’s being looked into.

Don suggests a potential solution by using a trick that forces a full page reload, proposing the use of a relative link (<a href="../../../../../about">). Farhan_Hossen confirms that this solution works.

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I’m trying to change the text here. I included a link.

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But when I click on the link it goes to that page but the modal and editor persists on the screen which I don’t want
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So, I think If I can force the page to refresh after clicking this link then it might work as anticipated. I tried adding target=“_blank” it didn’t help either. I’m open to ideas. Thank you.

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Is this so hard actually :thinking:

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yeah its surprisingly hard to do, and the last thing you want it to override the core implementation of modals for it.

mentioning this to people who could offer some guidance, but given holidays it may take us a bit to reply

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Hello :wave:

There is an easy trick which might help. It will makes full page reload.

I am not sure where exactly this modal shows up but something like this could help? I think this is probably the max level Discourse has. :thinking:
<a href="../../../../../about">

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Oh wow. It worked!