Target _blank in all Link

It's pretty simple in plain JS too:

var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i=0, len=links.length; i < len; i++) {
  links[i].target = '_blank';
}

(Put this script right before your closing </body> tag or in any case after all the <a> tags on your page.)


Put this in your <head>:

<base target="_blank">

It will make all URLs on a page open in a new page, unless target is specified.

This is a HTML5-only feature, I learned it from Google's io-2012-slides slide package.


If you are unable to do a simple find and replace using your HTML editor, you can do something like this using jQuery:

$('a').click(function() {
  $(this).attr('target', '_blank');
});

This will automatically do a target="_blank" for every a that is clicked and open in a new window or new tab(you have no control over this, it depends on user's browser settings).

FIDDLE

Hope this helps!!


To answer your question, jQuery makes this easy:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script>
    $(function() {
        $('a[href]').attr('target', '_blank');
    });
</script>

This will not modify any <a> tags without an href attribute.

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