The Help links provided next to each heading in the Views Form would be even more helpful if they did open in a new window, as in target="_blank".

The people who will use the Help most often are the beginners and they will not know to Save the View before clicking the Help link. The expected behavior for Help is a pop-up or new screen. When they click the Back button, all their unsaved data they already filled in for the View will be gone.

Views 6.x-3.0+32-dev

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dawehner’s picture

dawehner
Primary language German
commented
Project: Views (for Drupal 7) » Advanced Help
Version: 6.x-3.x-dev » 7.x-1.x-dev
Component: Views Form » Code

The help links are provided by the advanced help module, so let's move to another issue queue.

nancydru’s picture

nancydru
she/her/hers
Primary language English
Location Boston
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Target="_blank" is not XHTML compliant. Therefore this should not be done.

gisle’s picture

gisle
he/him
Primary language Norwegian Bokmål
Location Norway
commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

As noted in #2, the use of the target="_blank" attribute is not universally regarded as the "right thing".

If a site developer wants this, it can be easily be added by means the External Links module. There is no need for Advanced help to force this on everybody.