[Typo3] Forcing links to open in same window

[tapio]

Oliver Schröder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use (Typo3 3.7):
> 
> config.intTarget = _top
> config.extTarget = _blank
> PAGE_TARGET=
> 
> ... and it works.

DON'T use _top - it is very harmful, when you edit pages
by using the 'View' module - if you click links you loose the
backend interface! Use '_self' instead and you don't loose
your backend interface!

Tapio Markula.
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
>> Hey everybody --
>>
>> Here is a question that has been asked a million times, but I can't 
>> find an answer anywhere that works for me:
>>
>> how do you force typo to stop opening links in new windows by default?
>>
>> Most of the advice I've seen in the FAQs and on the list centers 
>> around setting the following constants:
>>
>> PAGE_TARGET = content.pageFrameObj =
>> This supposedly clears out the "page" default value that is set for 
>> both of these, which is what is causing the new windows.
>>
>> But here's the thing -- I have gone through and added these constants 
>> to all my TS templates.  I check in the Typoscript Object Browser and 
>> confirm that the values are empty (i.e. they're not inheriting "page" 
>> or something else from another template).
>>
>> But the links still keep opening in new windows!!  Agh!
>>
>> This is driving me crazy.  There must be a reliable way to turn this 
>> behavior off.  Help! 
>> - Jason Lefkowitz (jlefkowitz)
>>
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