links to social media opening on the same tab

[BiliqisO]

Opening a link in a new tab or window helps prevent interrupting the user's current flow. This can be useful to ensure that users can easily return to the original page without using the browser's "back" button If a link opens in the same tab, it might cause the user to navigate away from the current page, which may not be the desired behaviour in certain situations.

[0xShankar]

To prevent social media links from opening in new tabs, you can add the target="_self" attribute to the links. This will tell the browser to open the link in the current tab instead of creating a new one.

Here's an example of how to do this:

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/" target="_self">Facebook</a>

This will open the Facebook link in the same tab as the current page.

You can also use JavaScript to add the target="_self" attribute to all social media links on a page. Here's an example of how to do this:

<script>
  var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
  for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
    if (links[i].href.indexOf('facebook.com') !== -1 || links[i].href.indexOf('twitter.com') !== -1 || links[i].href.indexOf('instagram.com') !== -1) {
      links[i].setAttribute('target', '_self');
    }
  }
</script>

This will add the target="_self" attribute to all links that have the href attribute set to a Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram URL.