Need the below code to open a new tab instead of opening in current tab

Question

I need the below code to open in new tab. The link is to a website which is specified with "Occupation Link 1"

{block:ifOccupation1}
    <a {block:ifOccupationlink1}onclick="window.location.href='{text:Occupation Link 1}'" style="cursor:pointer"{/block:ifOccupationlink1}>
        {text:Occupation 1}
    </a>
    {/block:ifOccupation1}

Possible duplicate of [Open link in new tab or window](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15551779/open-link-in-new-tab-or-window) — Steve, Mar 12 '17 at 07:56

Koby Douek · Answer 1 · 2017-03-12T08:21:20.380

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Add ?target=_blank to the end of the URL:

{block:ifOccupation1}
    <a {block:ifOccupationlink1}onclick="window.location.href='{text:Occupation Link 1}'" target='_blank' style="cursor:pointer"{/block:ifOccupationlink1}>
        {text:Occupation 1}
    </a>
{/block:ifOccupation1}

edited Mar 12 '17 at 08:21

answered Mar 12 '17 at 08:01

Koby Douek

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What is the URL that is produced at the end ? – Koby Douek Mar 12 '17 at 08:17
Not `chathamink.com?target=_blank` ? – Koby Douek Mar 12 '17 at 08:20
{block:ifOccupation1} {text:Occupation 1} {/block:ifOccupation1}
– Zaed Mar 12 '17 at 08:23
Add the `target="_blank"` like I wrote – Koby Douek Mar 12 '17 at 08:24
I did but its still not working. I'm not sure why. Even when I right click on the link it doesn't give me option to open in new tab. Acting like not a link but like text, but when you click it, it opens up correctly in the same tab – Zaed Mar 12 '17 at 08:28
Is the web page external? Something I can look at ? – Koby Douek Mar 12 '17 at 08:29
links are the three links at the top – Zaed Mar 12 '17 at 08:30
It's without the _target: ` Like us on Facebook ` – Koby Douek Mar 12 '17 at 08:32
Are you **Sure** you uploaded the updated code to the website ?? – Koby Douek Mar 12 '17 at 08:32
I just changed the second link to add the target="_blank" – Zaed Mar 12 '17 at 08:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '17 at 08:02

to open a link in new tab all you need to do is add a target to it in your anchor tag, i.e, target="_blank". this '_blank' actually opens the required link in a new tab.

**<a {block:ifOccupationlink1}onclick="window.location.href='{text:Occupation Link 1}'" target="_blank" style="cursor:pointer"{/block:ifOccupationlink1}>
    {text:Occupation 1}
</a>**

Need the below code to open a new tab instead of opening in current tab

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