Customising link behaviour using JavaScript

A static-site approach to preference management

Bobby Jack
Level Up Coding
Published in
7 min readOct 28, 2020

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Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash

Opening links in a new window — or a new tab for the best part of twenty years — has always been a hot button issue. Many writers feel like it’s the sensible thing to do in order to ‘keep a reader on your page/site’, whilst usability practitioners despair at what they see as annoying and counterintuitive…

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Technologist & writer, Bobby is an Editor at consumer tech site makeuseof.com and ex-Editor-in-Chief of Switch Player Magazine. Read lots more at bobbyjack.me.