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Why do links in captions have target=”_blank” removed by default?

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I have a site where the caption has a link that we want to open in a new window, but it seems MetaSlider (Pro, as well) is stripping target=”_blank” from the link.

I needed to implement the following in the theme’s functions.php file:


// Allow MetaSlider to serve up what was provided without alteration (don't remove target="_blank" from links in the caption and more.)
add_filter('metaslider_filter_unsafe_html', '__return_false');

to get it to stop doing that.

I understand why filtering out unsafe content is being done, but why is target=”_blank” being stripped out from links in the caption in the process?

Hopefully, this is a small adjustment and I can go back to using the filtered output while still being able to have links in a caption open in a new window when appropriate.

Thanks for the great plugin (I’ve been using it for years & years),
Kurt


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