Stop opening links in new tab in modern pages
Please stop opening links in a new tab by default in modern pages.
It is against standard web behaviour (https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/G200), and is confusing to users when they end up with 10+ tabs open when navigating even the simplest site.
Make it optional by all means, it makes sense in a number of cases, just please not by default.
Cameron Monks
shared this idea
136 comments
-
Scott Urstad
commented
Repeat same comments from below. Please provide a setting or JS to resolve.
-
Anonymous
commented
Wake up! 2 years? This is really stopping us from moving to new SharePoint! Modern experience is nearly unusable while you will not FIX this!
-
Hans
commented
WORKING ON IT · 2 mei 2017 ahum kuch, that hard?
-
Rav
commented
This is very, very frustrating. Microsoft, think Users, User Interface. User Experience.
Fix the basics first!
-
Terry Dell
commented
This is brutally poor user experience and should not take Microsoft more than a day to fix, yet the complaints are aging like a fine wine.
-
Matt Budwill
commented
MSFT... Address this UI issue. It's causing adoption problems!
Workaround:
I've found this solved the issue when working with the Quick Links web part... instead of dropping the URL to a site, use the fully qualified URL to the actual homepage, so /sitepages/home.aspx.Changed the behaviors to loading within the parent.
Again, this doesn't solve the issue for everything but if using QL web parts, there is a bit of control.
-
Bill Burke
commented
working on it for two years
-
Sev Derghazarian
commented
this should be a choice rather than a random action. It causes issues with user experience and unnecessary end-user frustration. We are having to revert to using a SharePoint list for links to force consistent and expected behavior - quite unfortunate as this is a really nice looking and friendly way of providing links.
-
Niels van Beek commented
Please fix this, adoption is horrible!
-
Bruno Thiberge
commented
Je rejoins toutes les remarques qui concernent l'ouverture systématique d'un nouvel onglet qui pollue le navigateur et conduit à ne plus s'y retrouver. Mauvaise expérience utilisateur.
-
Marco Aurelio
commented
PLEASE TAKE THIS, BAG ON EACH OPEN PAGE, A NEW LINK
-
Marco Aurelio
commented
PT-BR
POR FAVOR ARRUMA ISSO, DA NO SACO A CADA PAGINA ABERTA, UM LINK NOVO -
Anonymous
commented
Killing user adoption for us too. Can't understand how it's been implemented like this - completely goes against web standards.
PLEASE - Any update on this - last update almost 2 years ago :(
-
SWalter
commented
Any update on this? We are trying to implement SharePoint online and this new tab thing is totally killing our user adoption, they are like, fix it or I am not using it.
-
Amy Gurski
commented
This is driving me completely bonkers. We should be able to click to open in the same window or CTRL-Click to open in a new window. It's impossible to "go back" to a previous page because finding the 1 tab that you need to go back to out of the 10 that just opened is impossible. When is this going to be fixed? I don't even see it on the list of updates that are in development!
-
Derek Gusoff
commented
If I go to site contents, site pages, then click on a page, I now have three tabs open. How is this a desirable user experience?
-
Jaime Hand
commented
How long will this take to get fixed. Seams like a pretty major flaw that does not help user adoption.
-
Melanie Turner
commented
I hate this so much. Any idea when this will be fixed?
-
SWalter
commented
We are just starting to implement SharePoint Online, this automatic new tab thing is not helping to win users over to SharePoint. New users end up with way too many tabs open, don't know where they are at or which to go to, get frustrated and quit. This needs to get fixed!!
-
Dawn
commented
Opening links in new tabs should only be for external links outside of the SharePoint site/hub. Who in their right mind wants internal links to open in new tabs? This is especially true with Hub Sites since the entire point is to keep everything in the hub with a universal navigation bar accross the top. Stop the insanity!
