Link targeting self

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Oct 21, 2019 2:25 pm
Hey everyone,

I'm trying to make a contents/index post that links to different posts, but the [url=] link seems to open new tabs. I was wondering how one would go about making it jump in the same tab as you'd expect from the target=_self behaviour?
Nov 7, 2019 9:09 pm
okay, here you go:

[.url="https://blahblahblah"; target="_self" !important]LINK WORDS[/url]

Remove the period. It'll do this:

ABOVE POST
Last edited November 7, 2019 9:10 pm
Nov 7, 2019 9:23 pm
Heh, looks like my regex is insecure. I'll both fix that and add a self on it in the future.
Nov 7, 2019 9:53 pm
The weird thing is that self should be the default, and it is everywhere but links in posts.
Nov 12, 2019 3:55 pm
That was on purpose actually, as originally, it was supposed to be for external links. I didn't really think about how people would use it for internal links, which make sense for self.
Nov 12, 2019 4:10 pm
testing self to a post that is not the first

this seems to be working :D (which wasn't on my thread )

thanks guys!!
Last edited November 12, 2019 4:11 pm

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