UI: Navigation Tabs should allow opening in new window/tab
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enhancement
javascript
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 3
- Forks
- 2
- Avg merge
- 2d 23h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
Description
Currently the navigation tabs are buttons, which do update navigation, but cannot be right or middle clicked to open in a new tab. This is a small but convenient feature that's helpful for quickly bringing multiple views up.
This would require:
- Convert the navigation buttons to hyperlinks
- Define appropriate CSS styling to maintain desired behavior
- Existing JS hooks should work to maintain current behavior when clicking, but enable following the hyperlink for new-window/tab behavior when right/middle clicking.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the navigation tab buttons, their existing JavaScript hooks, and the related CSS. Convert the tabs to hyperlinks while preserving normal-click behavior and styling; the work is done when users can right- or middle-click a tab to open its view in a new window or tab.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100