Target new / _blank does not work for doi links

  • Resolved iAnguel

    (@ianguel)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I am using default APA style which automatically adds the doi links to my citations. Best practice is to open the links in a new browser tab. Therefore, I tried adding target=”new” (as given in the docs) or target=”_blank” (as suggested in another support thread) to the shortcode but nothing happens unfortunately ??

    Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

    Anguel

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  • Plugin Author Katie

    (@kseaborn)

    My understanding is that it’s best practice to leave control over how the link behaves with the end user. The target attribute is an override and I think you’re right that it doesn’t overwrite the DOI links since that’s a new feature — I’ll add it to the to-do list.

    Thread Starter iAnguel

    (@ianguel)

    Thanks a lot! I am looking forward to this feature and I think I am not the only one. Visitors often don’t think much and just click a link. Neither blog authors nor visitors expect that the article they were reading carefully gets lost somewhere in browser history just because they clicked on a citation link in the bibliography.

    Plugin Author Katie

    (@kseaborn)

    This will be working in the next version of Zotpress.

    Thread Starter iAnguel

    (@ianguel)

    Thank you very very much!

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