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How to Make Links Open in a New Window

This How-to applies to: 2.1

When you're linking to a page on a separate website, it's nice to have it open in a new window so you don't lose people to that site. Learn how to control that with a touch of HTML.

  1. Create an external link to an outside website
  2. Dive straight into the HTML of the page -- Click the icon that looks like a scroll or simply says HTML in little letters.  You'll know you clicked the right spot when your nicely formatted page turns into a mess of garbled HTML.
  3. Find the link that you created.  If the link I created was for the phrase "newspaper" linking to the NY Times (like this: newspaper), I would look for HTML like the following:
    <a href="http://www.nytimes.com">newspaper</a>
  4. Add the following little scrap of code that appears in dark grey to that HTML:
    <a target="_blank" href="http://nytimes.com">newspaper</a>
  5. Sometimes you'll see a target attribute already there like this:
    <a target="_self" href="http://www.nytimes.com>newspaper</a>
  6. In that case, just change _self to _blank
  7. That's it!  Hit Save.  When anyone clicks your modified link, it will open in a new window.
by samk — last modified 2007-10-10 09:11
Contributors: Sam Knox
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