_blank is affecting current tab as well as opening new tab. Why? - html

Question

The website in question: http://www.chicagoswimschool.com/
When you click any of the Social Icons in the footer, it will open a new tab with the desired URL, but at the same time it will affect the current tab and redirect it to the desired URL. How can I make _blank ONLY open up a new tab and leave the previous tab unaffected?
The code for the links are pretty simple too
<span class="inner">twitter</span>

Answer 1

This is done by the following code of /wp-content/themes/passage/js/ajax.min.js
$j(document).on('click', 'a', function (e) {
if ($j(this).hasClass('bx-prev')) {
return false
}
if ($j(this).hasClass('bx-next')) {
return false
}
if ($j(this).parent().hasClass('load_more')) {
return false
}
if ($j(this).parent().hasClass('comments_number')) {
var t = $j(this).attr('href').split('#') [1];
$j('html, body').scrollTop($j('#' + t).offset().top);
return false
}
if ($j(this).closest('.no_animation').length === 0) {
if (document.location.href.indexOf('?s=') >= 0) {
return true
}
if ($j(this).attr('href').indexOf('wp-admin') >= 0) {
return true
}
if ($j(this).attr('href').indexOf('wp-content') >= 0) {
return true
}
document.location.href = $j(this).attr('href');
if ($j(this).attr('href') !== 'http://#' && $j(this).attr('href') !== '#') {
disableHashChange = true;
var n = $j(this).attr('href');
var r = n.indexOf(root);
if (r === 0) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopImmediatePropagation();
e.stopPropagation();
onLinkClicked($j(this))
}
} else {
return false
}
}
})
You may try deleting that code, or specifically the line which changes document.location.href. But this approach could break other things.
A safer approach would be adding no_animation class to an ancestor of the icons, this way $j(this).closest('.no_animation').length won't be 0.