How To Tell Hugo To Open Links In New Tab

June 6, 2020

Took too long to fix this one. To open links in new tabs using Hugo’s Goldmark renderer, do the following:

Create this file layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.html
Add this in the file:

<a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}"{{ end }}{{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank"{{ end }}>
  {{ .Text }}
</a>

And you’re done.