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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-11194

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    • We collect Confluence feedback from various sources, and we evaluate what we've collected when planning our product roadmap. To understand how this piece of feedback will be reviewed, see our Implementation of New Features Policy.

      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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            [CONFSERVER-11194] Open links in new window

            Tyrell Bratton added a comment -

            Literally had users asking for this today. PLEASE REOPEN AND FIX THIS

            Tyrell Bratton added a comment - Literally had users asking for this today. PLEASE REOPEN AND FIX THIS

            Achim Haag added a comment - - edited

            @bethp

            See below Ron Kuziel's link from 15/Aug/2023 7:45 PM
            to https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-force-links-to-open-in-a-new-window-213518072.html,
            it helped me in our "Server" environment.

            But you're right, it should be a simple native Confluence function/parameter
            and not only administrators should be able to decide - and only as global mode - how to proceed with internal/external links

            Achim Haag added a comment - - edited @bethp See below Ron Kuziel's link from 15/Aug/2023 7:45 PM to https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-force-links-to-open-in-a-new-window-213518072.html , it helped me in our "Server" environment. But you're right, it should be a simple native Confluence function/parameter and not only administrators should be able to decide - and only as global mode - how to proceed with internal/external links

            BethP added a comment -

            Seriously???? You are suggesting a 3rd party plug-in rather than adding this.  We have been using Confluence for only a couple weeks and this has been requested already.  Please re-open this item.

            BethP added a comment - Seriously???? You are suggesting a 3rd party plug-in rather than adding this.  We have been using Confluence for only a couple weeks and this has been requested already.  Please re-open this item.

            Erik Ekengren added a comment -

            Please re-open this! Its a basic need and would be very helpful for my company. I had to create a user macro that my users have to add on every page in order for this to work and it would be much easier and clean to be able to decide this on each of the links instead.

            Erik Ekengren added a comment - Please re-open this! Its a basic need and would be very helpful for my company. I had to create a user macro that my users have to add on every page in order for this to work and it would be much easier and clean to be able to decide this on each of the links instead.

            Joseph Schooler added a comment -

            For users who are creating pages that are not site administrators the option to put a JQuery script and have it all or none is very disappointing. Here we are in 2023 and this important feature that is available on all other websites is not here. This should be reopened and properly implemented with out the lame excuses. 

            Joseph Schooler added a comment - For users who are creating pages that are not site administrators the option to put a JQuery script and have it all or none is very disappointing. Here we are in 2023 and this important feature that is available on all other websites is not here. This should be reopened and properly implemented with out the lame excuses. 

            Ron Kuziel added a comment - - edited

            As was pointed out in a comment below from about two years ago, Atlassian provided a simple solution to this issue for Server and Data Center.

            There is a solution from Atlassian: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-force-links-to-open-in-a-new-window-213518072.html

            The solution we used was make all external links open in a new window by adding:

            <script>
            jQuery(document).ready(function()

            {     jQuery(".external-link").attr("target", "_blank"); }

            );
            </script>

            to General Configuration->Custom HTML->At end of Head. 

             

            Ron Kuziel added a comment - - edited As was pointed out in a comment below from about two years ago, Atlassian provided a simple solution to this issue for Server and Data Center. There is a solution from Atlassian: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-force-links-to-open-in-a-new-window-213518072.html The solution we used was make all external links open in a new window by adding: <script> jQuery(document).ready(function() {     jQuery(".external-link").attr("target", "_blank"); } ); </script> to General Configuration->Custom HTML->At end of Head.   

            Michael Wolfrum added a comment -

            +1 from me

            Michael Wolfrum added a comment - +1 from me

            JohnCleave added a comment -

            Add me to the chorus of people who say that the value of having this capability far exceeds any supposed diminishment of user experience. This is by far the #1 complaint I hear from our users about Confluence, and we hear the complaint a LOT.  And since it's trivial to implement, it is mind-boggling that Atlassian has chosen not to do it.

            JohnCleave added a comment - Add me to the chorus of people who say that the value of having this capability far exceeds any supposed diminishment of user experience. This is by far the #1 complaint I hear from our users about Confluence, and we hear the complaint a LOT.  And since it's trivial to implement, it is mind-boggling that Atlassian has chosen not to do it.

            Chris Callan added a comment -

            Pretty weak excuse, "it could create differing experiences".  You already do that with you ability to modify many other behaviors.  If a particular customer doesn't like this behavior, just turn it off.  For those that like the behavior, enable it.  I find it a rather indefensible position to say that if different customers can configure things differently that you should dismiss those features because of some perceived schism.

            Chris Callan added a comment - Pretty weak excuse, "it could create differing experiences".  You already do that with you ability to modify many other behaviors.  If a particular customer doesn't like this behavior, just turn it off.  For those that like the behavior, enable it.  I find it a rather indefensible position to say that if different customers can configure things differently that you should dismiss those features because of some perceived schism.

            dellagustin.sap added a comment -

            I'm disappointed with the decision not to support this feature, since the decision was from 2016, I hope it could be reviewed.

            dellagustin.sap added a comment - I'm disappointed with the decision not to support this feature, since the decision was from 2016, I hope it could be reviewed.

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