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Same functionality as right-clicking and choosing New Tab. This limitation occurs when there is either no href value for a link or some other element being used as a clickable element, in both cases the action can only occur with a javascript onclick event. This is something that in most cases could be taken into account by always starting with an anchor tag and then adding styles and javascript events.

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>This is something that in most cases could be taken into account by always starting with an anchor tag and then adding styles and javascript events. //

Would that really take it into account? Surely you'd be loading a new link without the state that the client has created, you'd need to push the state to the server and construct the links based on that - at which point it seems you're duplicating effort at the server and client.

Exactly, and I think this is a poor pattern cropping up in a lot of JavaScript heavy sites.

Take, for example, Twitter--

You CAN right-click on links like:

- "Tweets"

- "Following"

- etc.

But you arbitrarily cannot right-click:

- A link to the user's "Recent images"

- The link to a user's profile from "Recent images"

- etc.

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