Links not opening in a new tab

[long]

Have it set correctly:

But external links are opening in the same tab.

Is it a bug?

[HAWK]

Are you overriding it with your personal preferences?

[NateDhaliwal]

For reference, that’s under Preferences > Interface > Open all external links in a new tab .

[long]

It’s set to open in new tabs as well:

[Moin]

If you change your preference here on Meta (and reload the site), does it work as you expect on this forum?

[long]

Yes, I just set it on here in my preferences and it opened an external link in a new tab.

[Moin]

Then this doesn’t seem to be a bug in Discourse.

Is there something special about your forum? Have you tried safe mode? Is there a plugin that could cause this?

[long]

Nothing special. Self hosted on Hostinger Ubuntu. I disabled all plugins also. I will try safemode.

[long]

For anyone else that has this issue, here is the fix. Just create a theme component and add this code to the js section:

import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";

export default apiInitializer("1.8.0", (api) => {
  api.decorateCookedElement(
    (element) => {
      element.querySelectorAll("a[href^='http']").forEach((link) => {
        if (link.hostname !== window.location.hostname) {
          link.target = "_blank";
          link.rel = "noopener noreferrer";
        }
      });
    },
    { id: "external-links-new-tab" }
  );
});