Forum boards acting funny with ctrl-click

[Mutos]

Hi all,


As I just wrote when squatting Sheltem's post about the critical DB error, when you ctrl-click on a topic link, it opens the topic on a new tab, but also on the original tab, which is quite surprising and absolutely not he rintended behavior. There must be something in the phpBB skin.

[Betelgeuse]

what browser are you using I can not reproduce this error on Firefox

[Bobby]

I cannot reproduce it with either Operausb or GreenBrowser.

[Mutos]

Hi all,


Oh, sorry, I'm on FireFox 3.0.1, with no extra module except FlashBlock, running under W2kSP4.

[Sheltem]

strg-clicking should ONLY open the link in new tab, right ?

[Mutos]

Hi Sheltem, hi all,


Yes you're right, that's its whole purpose, if it also opens it in the initial tab there's no point at using it...

[Betelgeuse]

I am on FireFox 3.0.1
and when ctrl-clicking on a topic it opens that topic in a new tab
the current tab doesn't change

[Mutos]

Hi Betelgeuse,


So there must be something with my configuration, I'll investigate...

EDIT #1 : here's the HTML on the "Commonwealth" item on the board's General Index.

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	<tr>
		<td class="row1 one"><img src="templates/AdInfinitum/images/folder_big.gif" alt="" /></td>
		<td class="row1 two"
		onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#232323'; this.style.cursor='pointer'"
		onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor=''"
		onclick="window.location.href='viewforum.php?f=2'">

		<h3><a href="viewforum.php?f=2">Commonwealth</a></h3>
		General discussion about anything related to Transcendence.<br />
		&nbsp; &nbsp;</td>
		<td class="row2 one">229</td>
		<td class="row2 one">2737</td>
		<td class="row2 three">Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:23 am<br /><a href="profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8292">schilcote</a> <a href="viewtopic.php?p=16469#16469"><img src="templates/AdInfinitum/images/icon_latest_reply.gif" border="0" alt="View latest post" title="View latest post" /></a></td>

	</tr>

Do you see the onclick="window.location.href='viewforum.php?f=2'" event ? That's the whole point of it. It doubles the normal <a href="viewforum.php?f=2">Commonwealth</a> link element and causes the initial tag to change too. Should do that whatever browser and system, except if something occurs with event-catching...

[Betelgeuse]

ok I was able to reproduce your error. It is related to the board style.
I am using subSilver and that is why I couldn't reproduce it earlier. But when I changed to the other style I got the same error.

Did it used to have this behavior? (I switched to subSilver right away so I wouldn't know)

[Mutos]

Hi all, hi Betelgeuse,


For me it behaved like that from the beginning. I also think it is related to the style. I never changed from AdInfinitum.