# Setting That Opens Navigation Links in a New Tab

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/setting-that-opens-navigation-links-in-a-new-tab/58627>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [July 9, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/setting-that-opens-navigation-links-in-a-new-tab/58627 "2025-07-09T17:29:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@Ben3](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Ben3)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/setting-that-opens-navigation-links-in-a-new-tab/58627/1 "2025-07-09T17:29:14Z")

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A simple checkbox or toggle for each link in Ghost’s navigation settings that opens them in another tab would improve nav configuration significantly. The option for leaving a site completely _or not_ (ex. Social Media) is very powerful and links are either internal or external anyway. It’s surprising this hasn’t been implemented already:

> [@I want my external links to open in a new tab](https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-want-my-external-links-to-open-in-a-new-tab/9830):
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> Hello all I’d like all external links on my blog to open in a new tab. I’ve been reading the blog posts on this forum from people that had a similar question. I found some possible solutions that were posted here, but none of them seem to work on my Ghost website. The current version of Markdown seems to overrule attempts to manually create links like [Text goes here]([http://linkgoeshere](http://linkgoeshere)" target=“\_blank) and take out the target=”\_blank" part. Does anyone know if there is a way to overrule t…

> [@I want my external links to open in a new tab](https://forum.ghost.org/t/i-want-my-external-links-to-open-in-a-new-tab/9830):
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> Hello all I’d like all external links on my blog to open in a new tab. I’ve been reading the blog posts on this forum from people that had a similar question. I found some possible solutions that were posted here, but none of them seem to work on my Ghost website. The current version of Markdown seems to overrule attempts to manually create links like [Text goes here]([http://linkgoeshere](http://linkgoeshere)" target=“\_blank) and take out the target=”\_blank" part. Does anyone know if there is a way to overrule t…

> [@How can I make links open in a new tab](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-can-i-make-links-open-in-a-new-tab/39829):
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> Hello people! Currently, I need some help on a little something You see, I need all links in my website, external and internal, to open in a new tab. How can I do this? I’ve looked in other topics and tried to apply what they said there, but still don’t manage to do so. Maybe it doesn’t work in my ghost website, maybe I’m way too stupid Could someone please explain to me how can I do this?