How to make confluence links all open in new window

[Chi Nguyen]

Hi Atlassian,
 

We want to insert links to external websites in my page and have them open up in a new window. (It's not just ctrl+click).

We want all links to open in a new tab, window. Please support us.
My Confluence 6.0.0-OD-2016.12.2-1113.

Thanks so much,
Chi 

[Alex Yasurek]

Hi,

You can add some javascript to apply the target="_blank"  attribute to all links so that they open up in a new window. If you want to target only links that lead to external sites, you can use the class ".external-link" which confluence applies to all links that are external.

For example, add something like this to the custom HTML section in the admin area:

 AJS.$(".external-link").attr("target", "_blank");

[Steven Behnke]

The user indicates with labels they are on Confluence Cloud – Custom HTML and jquery is not an option.

[Alex Yasurek]

Oh good point, didn't see that. Not sure how it can be done globally without Javascript then.

[Milo Grika]

 I also don't know of any way to do it in cloud. So you might want to vote for this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9380

[Debbie Lefkowitz]

you can't, we've all been sent back to 1997.

[Carlos Gomez]

‘HTML Link’ Macro

http://www.brikit.com/display/documentation/HTML+Link+Macro