id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 54380,Menus no longer allow external links to open in new tab.,Laughter On Water,,"This may have been covered in a previous ticket, but I could not find it. On any site I'm editing, currently 5.8.1, I cannot get a menu item to show the check box for opening in a new tab. This is true in both the ""appearance -> customize -> menus -> custom links"" and ""appearance -> menus -> custom links"". I've got several menu external links that require opening in a new tab, but the capability is gone. This does not seem to be theme related, and I've been able to repeat this in multiple wp sites with multiple servers. So it's got to be core. The support page for menus still shows that this should be available, yet it is not. (See image with ""open in a new tab"" check box clearly visible in current WP documentation. https://wordpress.org/support/article/appearance-menus-screen/#rearranging-configuring-menu-items Will this be added back in with the next version? Is there a reasons this is no longer available? If this is covered elsewhere, please let me know. ",defect (bug),closed,normal,,Menus,5.8.1,normal,invalid,,,ui