Open Links in New Tabs

[PackeTsar]

First off, thank you for the awesome library! I found this project looking for a way to get strikethroughs working properly and found a bunch of cool features I have now picked up and used!

I wanted to ask if it is already possible, and if not then can it be added as a feature, to have regular hyperlinks open in a new tab?

I have seen suggestions in other places of using [Some Text](https://domain.com){:target="_blank"} for this, although it would seem easier to pass internal parameters like {newtab}. I was also looking at the [Feature Request] Video Embeds issue which seems to want to do something similar for media (![Text](URL){some_params}) links.

Please let me know if this is already possible or if it can be. Thanks! :D

[facelessuser]

I have seen suggestions in other places of using [Some Text](https://domain.com){:target="_blank"}

This is a valid recommendation and one that holds true still. This requires the usage of the markdown.extensions.attr_list extension. It's a generic way to set classes, ids, and arbitrary attributes: {: .class #id attr=value}.

It is rare that I ever need to have every link open externally. This is nothing I've investing time in trying to solve. I can see it being more useful in relation to links external to the host though. Relative links would obviously not need to open externally, but to detect a different host, you'd need to be able to send that to a plugin so it could detect the host. This is probably the most realistic use case that I think I'd consider. I currently have nothing in place that does this, nor is there anything in Python Markdown that can do this.

With that said, you could easily post-process and covert all links easy enough as well.

[PackeTsar]

Yes this makes sense. I didn't realize this was possible with markdown.extensions.attr_list. I will go that way. Thanks for the help!!