# Notification button is no longer center/right clickable?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-button-is-no-longer-center-right-clickable/109356
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-button-is-no-longer-center-right-clickable/109356 "2019-02-17T01:44:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-button-is-no-longer-center-right-clickable/109356/1 "2019-02-17T01:44:48Z")

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This button takes you to a separate page to show all your notifications:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/8/486182719ca229c55edb9df70354c6daaf0a6cae.png)

This used to be center-clickable (or right-clickable) so you could open all the notifications in a new tab. Was this functionality removed intentionally? Or perhaps it was a side-effect of the change-over to using SVGs for everything?

I just wanted to mention that this functionality was really helpful for when I have a large number of notifications. Any chance this functionality could be added again?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-button-is-no-longer-center-right-clickable/109356/2 "2019-02-17T03:51:36Z")

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> [@seanblue](#):
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> Or perhaps it was a side-effect of the change-over to using SVGs for everything?

Probably that. I wasn’t even aware you could right click this but I don’t see any reason it should be limited away cc @pmusaraj

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-button-is-no-longer-center-right-clickable/109356/4 "2019-02-17T14:35:59Z")

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This was probably right-clickable 1.5 years ago, when it was an anchor element, but it’s been a `button` element since [this commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/234f0262b8a2e1991ac2eb402b634614f90421c9) in Nov. 2017, and buttons aren’t right clickable.

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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-button-is-no-longer-center-right-clickable/109356/5 "2019-02-17T19:15:08Z")

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Are buttons center clickable? I’ve been able to center click to open the notifications in a new tab the entire time I’ve used Discourse (specifically [https://community.wanikani.com](https://community.wanikani.com)). It worked until very recently, perhaps a month or two ago at most.