How to open external links in a new window in Confluence?

[Karina Clemente]

How to open external links in a new window in Confluence?

[MatthewC · Accepted solution]

Or a roll your own version in a user macr

## Macro Name: new-window-link
## Macro title: New Window Link
## Macro has a body: Y 
## Body processing: Escape HTML
## Output: HTML
##
## Developed by: Matthew Cobby matt@andamooka.com

## @param Link:title=External URL|type=string|required=true|desc=The external URL for the link

<a href="$paramLink" target="_blank">$body</html>

and a usage example

{new-window-link:Link=http://www.atlassian.com}
Atlassian in a new Window!
{new-window-link}

[Karina Clemente]

Hey Mathew, it worked!!! Thank you so much!

[Nick Knight]

Hi Matthew,

I have used your macro (as described above) only problem is that when I click on the link it opens a new page and then adds the address (I entered in the macro) to the end of the URL of that page and tries to open that ? Any ideas what I may have done wrong ?

[MatthewC]

If you're asking how to use the Customware macros, the documentation is a bit sparse but it is here

http://wiki.customware.net/repository/display/AtlassianPlugins/link-window

and their example is:

{link-window:http://www.foo.com/}Link text{link-window}

[MatthewC]

You could also write your own user macro if you didn't want to use a plugin

[Abdoulaye Kindy Diallo]

Karina,

You may want to verify this doc and this improvement too. Hope that helps !!!

[Karina Clemente]

Hi, thanks for your answer. I ready the doc and the improvement and apparently the only way to do it is with the Customeware Linking Plug in. But how? Any help would be great.