# I want my external links to open in a new tab

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-want-my-external-links-to-open-in-a-new-tab/9830>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [October 28, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-want-my-external-links-to-open-in-a-new-tab/9830 "2019-10-28T20:33:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajeet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ajeet/32/6345_2.png) [@ajeet](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ajeet)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-want-my-external-links-to-open-in-a-new-tab/9830/11 "2020-02-15T18:37:58Z")

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Just a newbie question: - Won’t this jQuery make the specific page slow ?

Since I was missing this feature, I posted a similar question (labelled as IDEA) in the forum a day ago. [Link](https://forum.ghost.org/t/add-link-target-or-rel-attribut-from-post-editor/11992)

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