Every Version Of Ie Opening Links In New Window

I've been designing a website and have been using Safari and Chrome for most of the testing. I just tried testing Firefox and that went smoothly too. Leave it to IE to throw in a w

Solution 1:

I had the same problem with my Links. The problem is the leading / (slash) in /basedir/controller/action. The solution is to define a <base> tag in your HTML head.

You can automate this tag for testing => production environment if you'r using YII:

<?phpecho'<base href="'.$this->createAbsoluteUrl('/').'/" />'.PHP_EOL; ?>

You can even define a target in your <base> tag: target="_self"

Solution 2:

Thank you for all your suggestions. I was able to hop on a physical computer's version of IE, and while certain links are still broken, they do not open in new windows.

I guess this is just an issue with browserstack.com. But considering browserstack is a website specifically designed to test browsers on native operating systems, this really is something they should look into.