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Asked: 2026-05-11T17:08:08+00:00

Is there any way to configure IIS or Web app to automatically open a

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Is there any way to configure IIS or Web app to automatically open a new window when a hyperlink is clicked? My issue isn’t as trivial as it sounds, let me explain… I understand you can use JavaScript or target="_blank" in the anchor tag, but I don’t always know when an anchor tag might be listed on the page…

The reason is that it’s a user forum, think of stack overflow 😉 where a user might enter a URL (allowed) and it’s not necessarily known, or it was entered aeons ago and there is no way to tell.

I’m pretty sure the answer is no and I’ll just have to analyze for URLs when the post/entry is being saved and convert it to do this then.

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    <html>
<head>
<base target='_blank'>  <!-- Here's the interesting bit -->
</head>
<body>
<p><a href='http://google.com'>New window!</a></p>
</body>
</html>

    Of course that really will do all links – if you want a link to be an exception to the rule, and to open in the current window, do this:

    <p><a href='http://google.com' target='_self'>Not new window!</a></p>
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