Gutenberg: Social icons Block: Open link in a new tab.

[paaljoachim]

It would be nice to have the possibility to open social icons in a new tab.

We also received a request for it here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/social-icons-link-target-attributes/

Today the link attribute in Social Icons Block look like this:

@mkaz @jasmussen

[mkaz]

Good catch, <LinkControl> was under active development so wasn't ready to switch over.
It should be ready now to switch URLInput out for using LinkControl

[paaljoachim]

I also assume that the Social Block will be almost an exact replica setup/UI style as the Buttons Block.

[mkaz]

The first attempt was to use LinkControl, see #20740, this approach is not a good solution since it requires setting the parameter on each link. The ideal solution is to set the attribute on the parent and not each individual block, then on render add the proper target for the links

To read the parent attribute from the server-side render requires #19685

So this ticket can be picked up after that one closes.

An additional piece when adding a target="_blank" to a link, we should also include rel="noopener noreferrer" for security per
https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblank---the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever/

[mrwweb]

This appears to be a duplicate of #18486.

[paaljoachim]

Btw I believe this issue in relation to consistency in the Link Control Component needs to be looked at: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/17293

[xpurichan]

We had an additional request from a customer in chat today.

[drywall]

Put me down as someone else requesting this. I'm sure there are compelling technical reasons why it hasn't been done, but for an end-user this is inexplicable... seems like a reasonably common use case.

[paaljoachim]

New explorations are being done with link control: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23375
I would think that this would also drip down to the Social Icons Block.