Nav ahref with target="_self" breaks the url when the link points to the same website, but to a directory other than VitePress's

[cedivad]

Describe the bug

I have VitePress installed at /docs/ and I would like to have a clickable item pointing to /other-dir/ from the navigation menu (config.js -> themeConfig -> nav []). However, when setting target: '_self', the a href stop working. I believe that the function catching those clicks is triggering but confused that:

• The url is on the same website
• It is outside of the urls VitePress knows about, so it thinks those don't exist

When changing the target url from website.com/other-dir/ to another-website.com, target: '_self' works just fine.

Reproduction

Install VitePress in a subdirectory and try to reach outside of the install directory, but on the same domain, without using _blank.

Expected behavior

_self shouldn't crash a href.

System Info

Latest

Additional context

No response

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[brc-dd]

As a workaround, consider adding class="vp-raw" to that link. That will bypass that click handler.

[Red-Asuka]

@brc-dd I tried using class="vp-raw", which can indeed bypass click handler. However, in the production environment, this will load some non-existent JavaScript files. Is there any solution to this?