Hello, Lately, all the external links on my forum have stopped opening into a new tab. I’ve double-checked the option “open external links in a new tab by default” and it is ticked: [Admin-CriticEcho.com-Community] I checked the HTML behind the links via inspect element and target="_blank" is cl…

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"Open external links in a new tab by default" not working

osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) December 15, 2020, 7:32am 4

What version of Discourse are you running? It will be easier to see if I can replicate.

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