Open all links in new tabs

Written byPhuoc Nguyen

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HTML

Created

13 Apr, 2021

We all know that setting the `target="_blank"` attribute to an individual link will open it in a new tab.

It's uncommon to see a real use case where you want all links on the page to be opened in a new tab. A site that only collects links of external resources might be an example.

In that case, rather than adding the attribute to all links, you just set it to the `base` tag:

<head>
    <base target="_blank" />
    ...
</head>

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