External links in QInput 'hint' slot render as clickable but do not open the respective website

[tofi86]

What happened?

When using the hint slot in a QInput component (with bottom-slots prop set to true) and placing a link inside, the link gets rendered correctly but is not working at all.

What did you expect to happen?

The link should be working.

Reproduction URL

https://codepen.io/tofi86/pen/LEpKKdR

How to reproduce?

1. Go to https://codepen.io/tofi86/pen/LEpKKdR
2. Click on Link to Google.com (does not work) - nothing happens
3. Click on Link to Google.com (works) - opens google.com in a new tab
4. Happens in Chrome, Firefox, Safari (all latest versions on macOS 15.6.1)

Flavour

Quasar CLI with Vite (@quasar/cli | @quasar/app-vite)

Areas

Components (quasar)

Platforms/Browsers

Chrome

Quasar info output

Operating System - Darwin(24.6.0) - darwin/arm64
NodeJs - 22.18.0

Global packages
  NPM - 10.9.3
  yarn - Not installed
  pnpm - Not installed
  bun - 1.2.21
  @quasar/cli - 2.5.0
  @quasar/icongenie - Not installed
  cordova - Not installed

Important local packages
  quasar - 2.18.2 -- Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces (SPA, PWA, SSR, Mobile and Desktop) in record time
  @quasar/app-vite - 2.3.0 -- Quasar Framework App CLI with Vite
  @quasar/extras - 1.17.0 -- Quasar Framework fonts, icons and animations
  eslint-plugin-quasar - Not installed
  vue - 3.5.20 -- The progressive JavaScript framework for building modern web UI.
  vue-router - 4.5.1
  pinia - 3.0.3 -- Intuitive, type safe and flexible Store for Vue
  vite - 6.2.1 -- Native-ESM powered web dev build tool
  vite-plugin-checker - Not installed
  eslint - 9.34.0 -- An AST-based pattern checker for JavaScript.
  esbuild - 0.25.1 -- An extremely fast JavaScript and CSS bundler and minifier.
  typescript - 5.9.2 -- TypeScript is a language for application scale JavaScript development
  workbox-build - Not installed
  register-service-worker - Not installed
  electron - Not installed
  @electron/packager - Not installed
  electron-builder - Not installed
  @capacitor/core - Not installed
  @capacitor/cli - Not installed
  @capacitor/android - Not installed
  @capacitor/ios - Not installed

Quasar App Extensions
  *None installed*

Networking
  Host - MacBook-Pro-von-Tobias-2.local
  en0 - 192.168.0.125
  en12 - 192.168.0.189
  utun4 - 10.8.15.7

Relevant log output

Additional context

No response

[rstoenescu]

Hi,

Add a @click.stop on the link. We cannot do this from the framework because otherwise clicking on hint would not focus the field.

[tofi86]

Awesome, that works! thanks for the hint ;-)

Any chance to update the docs to document the prevent-click behaviour?