These hacks are unsupported customizations meant as unofficial workarounds.
They can cause instability, introduce issues and may conflict with future updates. Apply at your own risk!

Force Page Content Links to Open in New Tabs

Author: @ssddanbrown
Created: 27th Jan 2023
Updated: 27th Jan 2023
Last Tested On: v22.11.1

This hack will force HTML links, within the main content body of a page, to open in a new tab.

Considerations

This works via JavaScript, so is not assured to run since a user could have JavaScript disabled although this is relatively rare.

Code

head.html

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<script>
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    const links = document.querySelectorAll('.page-content a');
    for (const link of links) {
        links[i].target = '_blank';
    }
});
</script>

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