Open Links in New Tab by Default

[Christine Aletti]

In Confluence Cloud, is it possible to get links to open in a new tab by default? I could have sworn some links to spaces or pages within Confluence opened in a new tab, but now I cannot replicate this. Is it inconsistent? Is it possible to change the default Global configuration? 

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Christine Aletti 

It does not appear that there is any global setting in Confluence Cloud related to this.

From posts I found in this community the options seem to be:

1. right-click on the link and select open in new tab
2. I saw a recommendation for a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackoverflow-jira-extern/omobkjbchckaocdkcbeapemooohjgbnk
3. Another user said download an HTML macro for cloud 

You may want to review this insightful discussion on the topic in this other post:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/You-MUST-have-an-option-to-allow-links-to-open-in-a-new-tab-It-s/qaq-p/1588899

There is an unresolved change request on this topic to which you might want to add your vote:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65558