[ARCHIVED] How do I create a link that opens a new tab?

[tisander]

I want to have a link that opens to a new tab so that students can easily continue with their sequence.

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hi there,  @tisander ...

This is an easy one...  in your course, edit the content page that contains your link.  Highlight the link, and press the keyboard combination Ctrl+K.  A small "Insert link" window will open.  The URL should already be filled in for you (but i not, you can do that here).  The "Text to display" is what appears on the page for students to click on.  The "Title" is the hover text people would see when they hover their mouse over the link.  The "Target" drop-down is how you can control what happens when the link is clicked on.  Choose "New window"...which will cause the link to open in a new tab.

I hope this helps, Bettina.  Please let Community members know if you have any other questions about this.  Take care...stay safe...be well.

[karen_bowden]

Right now Ctrl + K no longer works. I have links already set and when I press Ctrl + K it wants me to re-enter the Text and Link and there is no option for target.

So I have discovered they changed the default to always open in a new tab. You can no longer choose to open in a new window or the same tab. At least for external links. It just knows you want to open in a new tab.

[christine_murak]

You can also edit the html and add target=”_blank” inside the <   >

I did this to link to a file in my course that I did NOT want to show up as a page in the modules list. 

So for example, something like <a title="Read Lecture Notes - Probability And Statistics" href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxURL of the page" target="blank" data-api-endpoint="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxnURL of the page" data-api-returntype="Page">

I added the target="blank" into the command. 

It worked exactly the way I wanted it to.

[KARENPERRY]

In addition to the html programming Bowman and Christine suggest, I had to also include rel="noopener"> after the target= "_blank" so that after previous html coding.....it read

       target="_blank  rel="noopener">

I am not a coder and have long hung up my html work gloves so I thank the two of you for offering aid on this question. - KPerry

[KARENPERRY]

I have two links in a document of links that do not behave in opening a new page.  When I go to "edit" the link I am never given the option of choosing a TARGET as in your solution.  What other options are there to edit these links that do not open into a new page?

[Ron_Bowman]

@KARENPERRY -

I may have misunderstood your post, but you will not see an option for target=blank.  You have to add all of that into the link.

ctrl-k was great, but I have not used it in a while, so I was unaware that it no longer was available.

in the html code with the link what you want is  ... href="..."  target="_blank" ...  as @christine_murak pointed out

edit: Just to clarify, in the editor, you need to click on the </> icon to get to the html version and then you need to find the link in question and the type in the target = "_blank" in the position indicated above

[christine_murak]

Agreed. You have to edit the html code and include the target information as @Ron_Bowman explains.