In the following code we set the “target” attribute to “_blank” for every anchor that has an “href” attribute starting with “http(s)://”…
<script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" /></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('a[href^="http://"],a[href^="https://"]').attr('target','_blank');
});
</script>
Most examples of this type only check for links starting with “http”, this of course would cause internal relative links such as “httpd_info_page.html” to open in a new window. This is why I check specifically for the full strings.
Here’s an even better way to do it…
$('a[href*="://"]').attr('target','_blank');Now all links that contain ‘://’ (http://, https://, ftp://, etc) will open in a new window!