Markdown open a new window link
As suggested by this answer:
[link](url){:target="_blank"}
Works for jekyll or more specifically kramdown, which is a superset of markdown, as part of Jekyll's (default) configuration. But not for plain markdown. ^_^
There is no such feature in markdown, however you can always use HTML inside markdown:
<a href="http://example.com/" target="_blank">example</a>
Using sed
If one would like to do this systematically for all external links, CSS is no option. However, one could run the following sed
command once the (X)HTML has been created from Markdown:
sed -i 's|href="http|target="_blank" href="http|g' index.html
This can be further automated in a single workflow when a Makefile
with build instructions is employed.
PS: This answer was written at a time when extension link_attributes
was not yet available in Pandoc.
It is very dependent of the engine that you use for generating html files. If you are using Hugo for generating htmls you have to write down like this:
<a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Example Text</span> </a>.