WebAim’s take on new windows – if you’re going to use them, let the user explicitly know that the link that they’re going to click on will open in a new window. So as you’re reading, I’m referring to an other source. Please consider, that maaaaaany (way too far) people don’t know the “Back” button! Doing any kind of work. It is also worth noting that users can force a link to open in a new window/tab by [Meta Key]-clicking a link. on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and all your favorite sites ☆ Block third-party trackers and protect your privacy ☆ Browse safely by blocking … How to Turn Off Ads on YouTube. What should developers do with their links? I don’t quite see why my preference (as a user!) There is still no need for opening links in another window/tab — doesn’t make any sense to me. That UX Movement article is garbage. All IEs before IE9 could not parse such page and prompted a download dialog instead and that’s why nobody really used real XHTML, because it just wouldn’t work in IE :), Ugh…my post got messed up… Infinite scrolling is tricky. Thanks for this post. No. DOH! It can be good UX in one sense because it can deliver content without interruption. Having said that, I would concede that there is possibly some doubt over which tab to go back in. And thus less comfortable with your forcing of a different behavior. % of people told us that this article helped them. All this logic sounded reasonable to me until the responsive site we are building hit a snag opening a new windows on windows mobile. ), I do see value in preserving that activity. The “Good Reasons” section is solid one I think we’ll be implementing from now on. Different horses for different courses. So, in summary, the only good use cases for target=_blank would be better served with JS handlers; therefore target=_blank should never be used. As far as PDFs are concerned, I’m 50/50 on that one. You don’t have to reload the original page, or worry about losing your spot. Il existent quelques solutions, heureusement, pour contourner adblock. Thanks once again for clarity in this world of mayhem ;-). If the media is playing, handle links in a special way. but people used it anyway since it worked. I tend to open links in a new tab or window in the browser when I want to. Opening a link in the same tab would make it difficult to resume. There are two more values that have to do with frames: _parent: – Loads the page into parent browsing context, and if there isn’t one, behave the same way as _self. :), (well, nowdays it works a bit smarter, when an onclick event is involved before window.open browsers generally let it be), I’ve never seen a pop-up blocker that blocked windows opened by target="_blank" :). Come to think of it, I haven’t used target _blank in a long time. wikiHow is where trusted research and expert knowledge come together. That’s exactly what I’m doing with links. Now if more sites adopted this mentality it would be another story. 1
s can have target="_blank" too. I’m pretty sure each of them have well educated people running around that think choices like these matters a lot, and they chose to open links in new tabs. Using target=”_blank” on pages that are in the same domain but serve a different purpose like (Support) would it make sense to put target=”_blank” or not for pages such as that. That is why it is best to open all external links in a new window, for consistency across your site and all sites. One of the possible values of that attribute is _blank, which tells the browser to open a new window (or tab, if that’s the user’s preference) when that link is clicked. They like being hand held through a process. The reason being because it has been this way for so long that so many non-techie internet users are accustomed to it. The only scenario in which I currently use target="_blank" is in a business application, where menu items link out to the corporate site and social networks. Keep in mind that disabling JavaScript may have other effects on the site; certain features won't work with this setting. I would expect that most people (generalising) would want to keep the article they are reading and see the new one. For anyone’s interest: It would be a great user experience to let customers know your competitor is having a sale this week. But until this day, I’ve never had a client that didn’t report external links without _blank as a “major bug”, and since most browsers these days open in tabs by default it doesn’t aggravate me as much anymore… I’ve given up :p. Both of the (real) “Good Reasons” don’t seem to support using target=_blank. Once you’ve found it, you let it all go except the finger you used to keep track of the page you were reading initially. Perhaps a small arrow beneath the timeline that was like a “You’ve watched this video this far before” link. (‘click’, function(event){ I have to disagree with most of the bad reasons listed here. Great article, thank you! We do several things to help: Checkout is another case here. How do you feel with target=_blank when you are using a mobile device? Many of the points you mention are no good reason to open links in new tabs though, I’ll give you that. I think the requirements for making a decision like this are very narrow. When that non-savvy user closes that window, they lose that whole session**. Talk about playing telephone. Users don’t use the back button nearly often enough and they prefer to be helped along in their user experience. 2 If you choose another video you go right to it. I agree—there’s nothing better than observation for learning about how people work! Might aswell throw this out there as well since the question will surely come up. If it’s really a problem for the user, they can always close the opening website’s tab with a single click. How many still think that the Google searchfield, that is so prominent in the middle of a newly started browser, is the place where to enter urls (“The addressfield? But my nearly 14 years of agency experience have taught me that clients and users (at least the ones that I deal with) simply expect so-called off-site links to open in new windows, whether I like it or not, and no amount of good reasoning will convince them otherwise. When I’m on a site like siteinspire.com or http://mediaqueri.es/ or any sort of showcase site, I am expecting that when I click to view the website, it will open in a new window. They learn it at the same time they learn there’s a tabbing system in whatever browser they use. Breaking it down: both “Good Reason” use cases depend on the user initiating some action (be it media or something that needs saved) where blindly leaving the page is suboptimal. And it shouldn’t matter much. Every dollar contributed enables us to keep providing high-quality how-to help to people like you. I understand that the back button will take them back to the page and scroll position they were on prior to leaving that page, but most people have short attention spans and can easily get lost down a rabbit hole clicking on every link that interests them. Forcing user to verify they want to leave page: If you are going to do it, not only do you need the target attribute for the functionality, you need to rel attribute for security. I suspect you’ll find that a large majority of the web will expect the internal vs. external differentiation. One other use case that I think is always ok would be for links using the mailto protocol -for users that have a web handler for mailto links, this will open the mail compose window in a new tab, which is definitely what I would expect to happen, and for other users the behavior will be unchanged. Let alone that, as Jason already pointed out, pop-up blockers chew on window.open? Then there’s people like the people who read this blog. If a user leaves your site, reads the article you linked to and closes the tab, they aren’t coming back to your site. I wouldn’t want users to leave my clients’ site. Now we are asking the user not only to interrupt their expectation once, but to interact with the dialogue box in an entirely different manner so that they can indicate just now unnecessary they feel the box is. Will this discussion / debate still be ongoing five years from now? We’ll have “internal” links (links that point to our own site) behave normally, but “external” links (links that point to other sites) open in a new window/tab. So is UX a matter of what’s best in an ideal world, or what’s best for our real users ? You can use OptinMonster’s Ad-Block Targeting Display Rule to specifically show or hide a campaign to visitors using ad-blocker tools including AdBlock, AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin. Solve the most annoying tech problems, FAST. As I have lot of external links in every post, I prefer to open them in new tab for ease of access and less distraction. The best way to address the issue may well be to change the default to _blank and allow for filtering to use _self for internal links (developer side), non-tabbed browsers or a user’s accessibility settings (client side). Why do you get to decide? The scenario I am envisioning is as such: User (difficulties, special needs not being considered here) sees a link he or she wants to visit. I see people all the time when testing websites where they don’t realize a new window/tab is opened and they didn’t realize and they try to use the back button. I see people all the time when testing websites where they don’t realize a new window/tab is opened and they didn’t realize and they try to use the back button. It’s just faster and makes more sense to me. This means, it loads the new page to the parent frame. でも、上 … Thanks as always :), Can you please share your idea, weather to keep or not. Here is my blog post with detailed guide how the snippet works? Like it or not, target="_blank" is a change in default behavior. on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and all your favorite sites ☆ Block third-party trackers and protect your privacy ☆ Browse safely by blocking … Most of us are aware of the tab click in one of its forms, be it the middle click, ctrl click, cmd click or what have you. Make an educated guess towards what the user’s preference would probably be, in the particular situation. I think you all need to go outside, build a bridge, and just “Get Over It!”. Giving the developer the ability to program for the average user while still allowing the special case to do as they please. One of the reasons we have this problem is because there is no best practice. When I put myself in the shoes of the user, I would actually prefer to open new domains in a different tab. that topic is very hard to handle. If other people use the site, leave it be. It just makes sense that those should be in new tabs. Let your users ask for it. counter stats I really don’t see why this has to be such a personal mission for some of you to let people know how much you hate us using target=”_blank” if it is valid and works. target is valid in both HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and is invalid in both HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict. Interesting factoid: Both Twitter and Facebook use target="_blank" for all their external links. Click on the Toolbar > Tools > Extensions. And loosing context (scroll position), either on infinite pages or just longer pages, really doesn’t matter that much, seems a perfectly good reason for me. I have been back and forth with this and, in the end, decided to keep target=”_blank” for external links. I would suggest that most people’s browsing habits are like a pyramid, starting in one place a rapidly spreading outwards (IYSWIM? Learn Development at Frontend Masters. The point is not that you think users prefer to open external domains in a new tab. When I’m reading a long article that links to a different domain (and I wish to continue reading the article), I find it much easier to use a simple control-W keystroke to close a tab than trying to navigate back to the article I was reading. I have just noticed what wasn’t discussed in the original article, and that is being able to identify the different behaviour of internal/external links via some kind of UI cue, like a different cursor or icon :pseudo element. _new, as a value of the target attribute, has no different meaning than stickybuns349 would. But are there good reasons to do so? - reek/anti-adblock-killer Doing any kind of work. This should be managed by the user and the site designer should have nothing to say about. I have sites with A LOT of external links and my sites are the threads which tie them all together. – alex Jul 24 '13 at 9:39 I just don’t want to ignore the impacts that others left on this page. Bad idea, imo. How much testing have you done? 3.) ===== FEATURES ☆ Block pop ups, ads, and annoying banners (even remove video ads!) I generally use JQuery in a function nowadays. But it will be a conscious decision on his part and not an accidental leave by being sidetracked. I’ve always written target=new, not target=_new, and always in place of target=_blank because (stupid, self-presumptive reason) “new” seemed more semantic lol. So…any ideas how to cater to all scenarios with sensible defaults and unrestricting settings? I’m surprised that there’s only one mention of accessibility in this discussion. New windows can also be confusing for those with cognitive disabilities. I guess some very specific split-window cross-reference thing could be a use case? }); This logic seems backwards. important }. By signing up you are agreeing to receive emails according to our privacy policy. Chris, thanks very much for this article. Basically I keep normal when interlinking my own page but when i link any external source then i use target=”blank”, my intention behind this is very clear that readers should not leave my page. Don’t assume the rest of the web is going to play nice just because your intentions are laudable. So at what point do you overrule your own user research because of a desire not to use a particular technique? I’ve i.e. [? @Michael: The difference is that target="new" opens a link in a tab/window named “new”. Every site I reference, references a lot of other sources in turn and so on. – Dave. This article has been viewed 94,899 times. Here is a good community question. A link to something like “shipping information” should be openable without them losing their place in checkout.

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