Target Blank

[KvL159]

First of all, thank you for this great add-on to Nextcloud !

I'm trying to set some links with target blank to open them in new tabs/new windows.

I found some answer about how to handle it in Markdown, but it doesn't seem to work with CMS Pico in Nextcloud:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4425198/can-i-create-links-with-target-blank-in-markdown

I did try [text](url){:target="_blank"} as suggested in the link above, however it ignores what's after the url and shows it as text.

[PhrozenByte]

Unfortunately that's not possible right now, because Parsedown, the Markdown parser Pico uses, isn't capable of doing so.

[KvL159]

Thank you @PhrozenByte

I found that "parsedown-extra-plugin" may offer such function, do you think it can be added to Pico ?

https://github.com/taufik-nurrohman/parsedown-extra-plugin#automatic-relnofollow-attribute-on-external-links

Upstream discussion:
erusev/parsedown#494

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[sm8ps]

Sorry for reviving an old thread! I have just come across it and was wondering why this cannot be circumvented by specifying the link as HTML in the Markdown like
<a href="https://github.com/nextcloud/cms_pico" target="_blank">cms_pico</a>.

The link is shown but does not behave as hoped. Is this expected behavior? If so, is there any reason not to adapt it?

[PhrozenByte]

@sm8ps HTMLPurifier doesn't allow this by default. However, target="_blank" yields no threats in our scenario, so we should add it to the allow list. Thus I'm transforming this issue to an suggestion.

[sm8ps]

Great, thanks! I think this will be much appreciated by many users.

[new-on-github]

Any news on this? Where can this be added to the whitelist?

Thanks a lot!

[tanghus]

There is a plugin which opens external links in new tab/window. Maybe it can be modified for your use case? https://notabug.org/ohnonot/PicoTargetBlank

I use a modified version as there were some problems with it - can't remember what.