How to open link in new tab?

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How to open a link in a new tab?

This does not work: (although it has the target="_blank in it)

Neither does: {:target="_blank"}

But what does work?

For the meantime I overcame the sketchy documentation for unsafe and made it work without markdown, with some guessing this HTML workaround worked:

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
unsafe = true

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If the render hook isn’t working, you’re doing it wrong.

layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html

<a href="{{ .Destination }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }}{{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank" rel="noopener"{{ end }}>{{ .Text | safeHTML }}</a>
{{- /* chomp */ -}}

markdown

[hugo](https://gohugo.io/)

rendered

<a href="https://gohugo.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hugo</a>

Works great.

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I use your layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html

Markdown
[hugo](https://gohugo.io/)

Rendered
<a href="https://gohugo.io/">hugo</a>

I still use Hugo ext. 0.89 though.

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What is ‘this’?

Render hooks only apply to Markdown links in Markdown files. With Markdown render-link.html works great with version long before 0.89, so if it’s not working, you need show your repository (i.e. give us a link to a public repo) or a minimal reproducible test case in a public repository.

Otherwise you are wasting everyone’s time (yours and ours).

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I created: layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html with this content (tried other too):

<a href="{{ .Destination }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }}{{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank" rel="noopener"{{ end }}>{{ .Text | safeHTML }}</a> {{- /* chomp */ -}}

markdown.md has
[hugo](https://gohugo.io/)

Which renders to:
<a href="https://gohugo.io/">hugo</a>

Cntr.C etc was done. So I wonder why it ain’t working?

It’s something I am working on and not public yet.

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Then if you want help you need to create a minimal reproducible test case that is public.