How to open link in a new tab

[Tommaso_Vaccarella]

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Links

How to open a web link in a new tab?

[Daniel Amaral - Autoglass]

The solution is here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-force-links-to-open-in-a-new-window-213518072.html

[Chris Swinney]

TBH, this is not really a solution. What is required is to simply allow an editor of a Confluence page to select a target of a link, i.e. `_blank`

[chintot]

This is good however, opening a new window is still different from opening a new tab.  The built-in macro is for opening a link in a new window. I also prefer that there is also one macro for opening a link in a new tab instead.

[Jiraconfluence Solutionmgm sIT]

Hello.

Without HTML or the source editor I solved it with a user macro.

I just entered the following code:

<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery(".wiki-content a").attr("target", "_blank");
});
</script>

But: That affects ALL links on a page.

Can I somehow modify it so that only some links will be opened in a new page?

[Rob Woodgate]

Hi Tommaso,

These links show you how to force links to open i a new tab:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-force-links-to-open-in-a-new-window-213518072.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-do-i-make-my-attachments-open-in-a-new-window-or-tab-313459830.html

As you're on the Cloud version you'll need to download an HTML macro for cloud if you want to do this; it is paid for but the pricing is very cheap.

[QuentinB]

Hello, you can ctrl+click a link to open it in a new tab

[Dmitriy Kashkarov]

(facepalm)

[Lee Mandleberg]

didn't there use to be a checkbox for this simple functionality?

[thinhnk]

Install this extension. 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackoverflow-jira-extern/omobkjbchckaocdkcbeapemooohjgbnk