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  2. CONFSERVER-11194

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      NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      Confluence needs to support opening a link in a new window.

      Although I admit that it probably shouldn't use target as that's deprecated, it should still do it (article on standards compliant way: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world).

      Wordpress does it and I use it all the time. Within a week of us rolling out Confluence at my company, people have started asking for it.

      I am aware of the CONF-1210, CONF-7045, and CONF-6947 marked "Will not fix," but this is a simple feature found in competing products which users find useful and I wanted to open it again and get votes behind it.

      The

      {link-to}

      macro doesn't do this for external links so it doesn't satisfy this requirement.

      Atlassian Status as of September 19, 2016

      Hi everyone,

      Thank you for your ongoing feedback on this issue. On behalf of the Confluence team I would like to apologize for the changing status of this request. After many hours of discussion with design and product management, and after some engineering prototyping and testing, we have decided to close this issue as we do not plan to release this feature.

      We aim to make our users' experience as friction-free as possible, and although being able to control the ways of opening links would be useful to many of you, it could easily lead to an inconsistent experience for users.

      If your use of Confluence is in fact enhanced by opening particular links in a new window/tab then please consider using one of the existing solutions from our Marketplace (unfortunately they're not available for Cloud instances):

      Cheers,

      Adam Barnes
      Confluence Product Manager

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        Issue Links

          is duplicated by

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-1986 Extend Link markup to open link in new browser/tab

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-27323 Create the ability to set the target for a link

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-28096 Create Link with a Target of New Window or Tab

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-30307 Open external links in new tab / window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-31117 Confluence Hyperlink Opens in a New Tab or a New Window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-31434 Open links in new window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-34088 Provide the ability to create a link in Confluence that will open in a new tab

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-39724 When creating a link, allow ability to choose to open link in new window

          • Closed
          is related to

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-1210 Support links opening in new browser window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-6947 open link in an external window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-7045 target="blank" in links

          • Closed
          relates to

          Suggestion - CONFCLOUD-11194 Open links in new window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-34088 Provide the ability to create a link in Confluence that will open in a new tab

          • Closed

          Suggestion - JRASERVER-9380 external links to open in new window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - JRASERVER-73007 external links to open in new window

          • Closed

          Suggestion - JRASERVER-75710 external links to open in new window

          • Closed
          was cloned as

          Suggestion - CONFSERVER-31434 Open links in new window

          • Closed
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