# Hyperlinks to external resources

**URL:** <https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Tags:** feature-suggestions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545 "2025-03-04T07:46:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![robertjf](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/robertjf/32/207_2.png) [@robertjf](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/robertjf)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/1 "2025-03-04T07:46:49Z")

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Is there a way to render links to external references with the target set to blank? I was just looking through topics and clicked a few references and then had to back track to get back to the forum…

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**Author:** ![sebastiaan](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/sebastiaan/32/279_2.png) [@sebastiaan](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/sebastiaan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/4 "2025-03-04T07:48:54Z")

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There’s a preference for that. Personally, I dislike being forced automatically to open a new tab unless there’s a good reason.

 ![image](https://forum.umbraco.com/uploads/default/original/1X/6972b81b4bea44be459bd1632107ff407d8a9a44.png)

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**Author:** ![robertjf](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/robertjf/32/207_2.png) [@robertjf](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/robertjf)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/5 "2025-03-04T07:52:26Z")

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do editors get the option to set the target? (I haven’t tried yet 🫣)

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**Author:** ![sebastiaan](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/sebastiaan/32/279_2.png) [@sebastiaan](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/sebastiaan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/6 "2025-03-04T07:56:17Z")

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Not sure I understand the question? Currently, clicking a link in a thread does not open it in a new tab, after enabling the setting they will open in a new tab I assume all links to [forum.umbraco.com](http://forum.umbraco.com) will open in the same tab.

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**Author:** ![JasonElkin](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/jasonelkin/32/133_2.png) [@JasonElkin](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/JasonElkin)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/7 "2025-03-04T10:18:23Z")

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Let’s test…

```markdown
[Umbraco Link 1](https://umbraco.com/)
<a href="https://umbraco.com/" target="_blank">Umbraco Link 2</a>

```

Gives us:

[Umbraco Link 1](https://umbraco.com/)  
[Umbraco Link 2](https://umbraco.com/)

Edit: I’m pleasantly surprised that just works as you’d expect. Unfortunately Markdown doesn’t have a standard markup for extra attributes, so then it’s necessary to break out the ol’ angle brackets.

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**Author:** ![sebastiaan](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/sebastiaan/32/279_2.png) [@sebastiaan](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/sebastiaan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/8 "2025-03-04T10:41:26Z")

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> [@JasonElkin](#):
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> `<a href="https://umbraco.com/" target="_blank">Umbraco Link 2</a>`

Thanks, I hate it 😂

:umbraco-heart:

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**Author:** ![robertjf](https://forum.umbraco.com/user_avatar/forum.umbraco.com/robertjf/32/207_2.png) [@robertjf](https://forum.umbraco.com/u/robertjf)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.umbraco.com/t/hyperlinks-to-external-resources/545/9 "2025-09-02T22:42:09Z")

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Closed on September 2, 2025, 10:42pm UTC

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