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Posted August 11, 2017 3:00pm by

Best practice to open a link.

I would like to know generally should we be opening the link in same page or new tab or new window.

2 Answers

August 11, 2017 3:10pm

Hi nilesh panchal

The general consensus is to open a link in a new window if it is taking you outside of your website and subdomains of your website. There are many other reasons why you could go either direction with opening links in a new window or same window, but I know when i click a link that redirects me elsewhere and it overrides the current page i'm on, it becomes quite annoying. Just my opinion :)

Take care!

August 11, 2017 11:25pm

I use new window/tab on my blogs and even for internal links

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