Clicking on a markdown link should open the link rather than selecting the cell

Users will use editable=False for read-only tables and therefore shouldn’t select them. It feels awkward to have a cell become selected when the table otherwise looks and feels read-only.

In read-only tables, users will be selecting cells to:

• Copy and paste text - where they’ll expect the standard “click and drag” text selection to work
• Click on embedded markdown links

Both of these interactions feel awkward with the current cell selection behavior.

We could introduce a new property like “cell_selectable”, but I believe that this property should be coerced to False if editable=False

[Dekermanjian]

Hello, I am adding this comment into this issue as it seems very closely related. There also should be an option to allow links to open in a new tab, and I believe it should be the default option. It is unlikely that a user will want to click on a link in a data-table and be directed away from the table.

[chriddyp]

Agree with the MD link click requiring a single click to trigger. Making the size estimate fairly large because I’m not sure what the MD fix will require.

Alright, I’ll update this issue to be focused on just getting clicking on a markdown link to work directly