Alerts Dropdown Menu - Weird Behaviour on Centre Click

[Jezston]

As anyone with a slightly funky mouse will tell you, sometimes using centre-click to open a link in a new tab activates scrolling-about mode instead of opening the link, which is a bit annoying.

On other drop down menus on this site, such as the username dropdown, accidentally going into this mode causes the whole page to scroll about.

However, it appears the alerts dropdown has it's own page or something, as accidentally activating this mode whilst trying to open links from the dropdown causes the whole page to go totally doolally weirdo mental.

Worth looking into?

I'm on Chrome btw.

 

[Shaun]

Middle mouse button clicks only work on HTML anchored links - not on javascript based links.

If you move your mouse to a "cell" in the Alerts drop-down the whole cell is made conveniently clickable using a bit of javascript - however, this is not a HTML anchored link and so the middle-mouse click doesn't behave as you might expect it to.

You need to have your cursor directly over the linked thread title when you middle-button click - THEN it will open the link in a new tab as you'd expect.

Give it a try and you'll see the two very different behaviours are based on where your cursor is.

You just need to get into the habit of making sure your cursor is hovering over a "proper" web link.

Cheers,
Shaun

NB: This will apply to any web site/page that uses javascript for linking non-anchored items.