Links to other threads in the forum

[Boost]

This is probably petty but when you guys split part of a thread into a new thread, and then link to it from the old thread, could you make it so the link opens up in the current window rather than opening a new window?

[dk]

All links in posts open in a new window. I don't know of a way around that... I'm sure there's a way by dinking around in the templates, but I really don't want to do that. Besides, the point of links isn't to drive people away from a site.

I know what you mean, but there's no way for these forums to tell the difference that kind of link and a off-site news link.

[Boost]

I understand. Guess I was looking at it from a website designers point of view. Outside links = new window, Internal links = same window.

I've caught myself with several windows open without realizing it, so thought I would ask about it.

[dk]

Yeah, with small-scale custom websites it's a lot easier to control. You should see the template system for this forum though lol. Makes me glad I know html already.

I'm sure some logic COULD be built into the template system to strip down the domain in the url to find out if it's a local link, but I really, really don't want to do that at this time. And I don't know enough about vbulletin's php coding yet so it'd be a pretty big headache for a pretty little thing.

[Boost]

I don't blame you, why fix something that isn't really broke! In actuallity you could end up "breaking" it in the process. So probably better to leave well enough alone.

[dk]

Yeah, that's basically how I see it. :p