Opening Links in a New Tab

You may have noticed that some links open in a new tab. Websites do this when they send us somewhere else but expect us to come back.

We do it by adding another attribute, target, with the value _blank. Modern browsers open such a link in a new tab.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">Link to Wikipedia</a>

So when we want a link to open in a new tab, it has two attributes:

• href with the address of the link,
• target with the value _blank.

Attributes are separated by a space, and their order doesn't matter.