open link in new tab with github markdown using target="_blank"

github hyperlink markup
Plaul picture Plaul · Jan 28, 2017 · Viewed 35.3k times · Source

Is there a way to let a Link, written in githubs markdown, open in a new tab? All posts I have found related to this suggests to use HTML and target="_blank", which is fine with me, but that doesn't work. For example this link:

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">Go</a>

Does not open in a new tab. I'm no interested in replies for all kind of different markdown syntaxes, but only in a solution that will work when I write my markdown on github.

Answer

Plaul picture Plaul · Feb 10, 2017

Well it seems that the simple answer is "It's not possible". Github does not include the target attribute even if you use plain HTML, so it's not a in the final HTML Anchor tag. Annoying, but OK, users can just do a CTRL+click (on Windows and Linux) or CMD+click (on MacOS) on the link, the get the same behavior.

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