Open (image) links in a new tab

Hi, 

I've added a dashboard for my team with tools that we commonly use. These are represented as images with a link behind them so my team members can easily navigate to the tools. However it seems that I can't select the simple option to open the link in a new tab instead of the same browser tab. This is fundamental for a proper dashboard behavior.

For regular links this option also seems to be missing, why can we not insert a link to a page and set it up to open in a new tab instead of the current one?