How to Make a Link Open in a New Window

Making a Link Open in a New Window in Blogger

This is an advanced Nugget from Craig Brooksby. When you build a link, you may want to have the link open in a new window, versus leaving your site entirely. Here is how you do that.

If you want to make a link open in a new browser, click on the “Edit Html” tab above the posting window. Then add Target=”_blank” exactly after the url . Here is what the code would look like:

In the new Blogger, when you create a hyperlink, there is a field for target. Just type _blank into that field. On the old BLOGGER platform you have to add the code manually as I have done above.

All browsers, nowadays, are tabbed. If you are browsing, and want to open a page in a new tab, Ctrl+click does it.