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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
2 years ago

Footer links issue

Mods, the footer links on every page link to the page one is already on.    Examples:   If I'm on https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/Tech-Support/Data-Usage-With-Jupiter-3/td-p/141479, all the li...
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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
2 years ago

Amanda , the first time I noticed the issue and posted the OP, I had both right clicked and left clicked, and both actions were redirecting me to the page I had clicked from. Later, when GabeU posted, the issue had almost solved itself. I could left click but not right click. 

 

The issue persists for right clicking on all the browsers I've tried. It works for left clicking, though.

 

Solving this may be more trouble than it's worth, and so I'm fine if it doesn't get solved or if the community team doesn't want to deal with it. 😊 It's just a curious issue because it didn't use to happen. 

 

I've also bookmarked the links (and I know the link for the legal node by heart....LOL).

 

My plan was to refer subscribers to the footer as a shortcut to the the linked pages, but I can just post the relevant link. 

 

Thank you very much for all the help, especially for helping on what's no doubt a very minor issue. 🤪

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
2 years ago
maratsade wrote:

The issue persists for right clicking on all the browsers I've tried. It works for left clicking, though.

Same here. Right clicking, then clicking "Open link in a new tab" (or window) results in opening this same page again. Left clicking goes to the proper page. 

 

Interestingly enough, left clicking on 'Terms and Conditions' or 'Legal' automatically opens a new tab with the corresponding page, but clicking on 'FAQs' or 'Contact Us' goes to the corresponding page without opening a new tab.

  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    Professor
    2 years ago

    To me that would seem to indicate an odd browser problem. The link is the link. The browser interprets what to do with it on a left or right click. Does this seem to happen only on one brand of browser (e.g., Chrome)?

    Edit: Wait a minute... now I think I understand. The links are created dynamically in Javascript with the originating page followed by a hash. So left-clicking on "Terms and Conditions" goes to "T&Cs", but right clicking gets munged. In this case it seems the Javascript may be need to be tweaked.

     

    Edit2: Likely something included from the lithium footer code (if lithium's like wordpress). I can't see anything when I look at the raw page code using Cmd-U in Firefox.
    Amanda