Better Primo VE Menu Link Options
Custom menu links in Primo open in a new tabbed window. This is bad behavior. If I go back to the original screen and press the button again, it opens up another window in another tab, and so on.
Desired Behavior:
Menu link goes to address -- does not open a new window or tab. At the very least, it should have be an option for developers. Currently it is hard-coded in the html and not changeable. Using it leads to cluttered browsers.

2 comments
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Allan Berry commented
I'm surprised this still happens.
Nielsen/Norman identified this over 20 years ago as bad practice:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-top-ten-web-design-mistakes-of-1999/Again, a decade later:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-mistakes-web-design/This is an insightful way to think about the issue:
https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/53551/48949Other pages in the menu (those initiated by ExL) do not open new windows. This makes the menu internally inconsistent.
Could there at least be a checkbox in the administration section to turn this on/off on a per-link basis?
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Manu Schwendener commented
I completely agree.
As do the GDSteam of gov.uk https://twitter.com/GDSTeam/status/983992989650423809
and the Nielsen Norman Group https://www.nngroup.com/articles/new-browser-windows-and-tabs