Question

the urlize function from django.utils.html converts urls to clickable links. My problem is that I want to append a target=”_blank” into the “< href..>”, so that I open this link in a new tab. Is there any way that I can extend the urlize function to receive an extra argument? or should I make a custom filter using regexes to do this stuff? Is this efficient?

Answer 1

There is no capability in the built-in urlize() to do this. Due to Django’s license you can copy the code of django.utils.html.urlize and django.template.defaultfilters.urlize into your project or into a separate app and use the new definitions instead.