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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Build the Contact Page

Nathaniel Nasarow
Nathaniel Nasarow
10,291 Points
Posted by Nathaniel Nasarow
Nathaniel Nasarow
10,291 Points

Opening links in a new window

Once again, questions!

When setting social media links and other weblinks in a page, how can I make it so that when the user clicks the link, it opens the new link in a new window, rather than taking the user away from your page?

3 Answers

junaid shafiq
junaid shafiq
1,361 Points
junaid shafiq
junaid shafiq
1,361 Points

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_link_target

If you set the target attribute to "_blank", the link will open in a new browser window

Niyamat Almass
Niyamat Almass
8,176 Points
Niyamat Almass
Niyamat Almass
8,176 Points

hey just add the blank target.It looks like :-

blank.html 
<a href="this.is.mylink.com" target="_blank">This is my cool link</a>

I think that will solve your problem.

Aleksey Fishouk
Aleksey Fishouk
8,788 Points
Aleksey Fishouk
Aleksey Fishouk
8,788 Points

Also you can use <base target="_blank"> in head section of your website. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp