Force Page Content Links to Open in New Tabs

• Author: @ssddanbrown
• Created: 27th Jan 2023
• Updated: 27th Jan 2023
• Last Tested On: v22.11.1

This hack will force HTML links, within the main content body of a page, to open in a new tab.

Considerations

This works via JavaScript, so is not assured to run since a user could have JavaScript disabled although this is relatively rare.

Code

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<script type="module">
    const links = document.querySelectorAll('.page-content a');
    for (const link of links) {
        link.target = '_blank';
    }
</script>