Asciidoctor open links in new window

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Author: Christoph Stoettner
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Fountain pen and a notebook

Photo by Aaron Burden | Unsplash

I write most of my documentation with Asciidoctor , so saving some keystrokes is important.

You can add window=_blank to links in your Asciidoctor source.

For example:

* https://www.duckduckgo.com[window=_blank]
* https://www.duckduckgo.com[DuckDuckGo, window=_blank]

So this creates links with the html source:

<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.duckduckgo.com" class="bare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.duckduckgo.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.duckduckgo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DuckDuckGo</a></p>
</li>
</ul>

The good thing is, that there is a shortcut for this. You can replace window=_blank with a ^:

* https://www.duckduckgo.com[^]
* https://www.duckduckgo.com[DuckDuckGo^]

Following html source is generated

<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.duckduckgo.com" class="bare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.duckduckgo.com</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.duckduckgo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DuckDuckGo</a></p>
</li>
</ul>

You see the result is absolutly the same.

This work also with Antora and was implemented with Asciidoctor 1.5.7 .

Thanks to Dan Allen to mention this in the Antora Gitter Chat .

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