External links embedded in discussions and comments to open in a new window when clicked?

ramyhin

How can I get external links embedded in discussions and comments to open in new windows (preferably a new tab) when clicked?

Shadowdare

For the standard comment form, it should do it automatically if you just paste the link in. Otherwise, you just add a target like this:
<a href="YOURLINK" target="_blank">YOURLINK</a>

This also reminds me, @Mark, the Powered By Vanilla text should open up in a new window preferably.

ramyhin

Do I just add this line of text somewhere in the default.master.php file?

My goal would be to have all links posted in any discussion to open in a new window when clicked.

It appears that the forum on http://vanillaforums.org/discussions does this.

Shadowdare

It does it for me by just copy and pasting the link. Are you using the CLEditor WYSIWYG plugin by any chance?

moroz

I'm using CLEditor and have embed forum. Target "_blank" is something i need. Please, who know how to add this to CLEditor???

sherrierohde

Having this same problem with CLEditor. Any solutions?

rahulparekh

Using JavaScript, this can be done.

stackoverflow.com/questions/7901679/jquery-add-target-blank-for-outgoing-link