Open links in different tabs

[DeadpoolX7]

Open links of repos in different tabs to save time

If links are opened in different tabs it would be easier for users to return to home read.me in a single click, rather than after going through a lot of issues in project repos and doing back back!
Think, of it.

[athinaanv]

Can I give this an attempt and see where I can get?

[sammyhori]

Can I give this an attempt and see where I can get?

Please do, I think this is a great idea.

You'll probably need to change something in the way the markdown syntax is written in the template for the README (found at .github/README-template.j2).

[sammyhori]

It does seem that this may not be possible actually, but please let me know if you find a reasonable working solution.

[DeadpoolX7]

@sammyhori actually you're right it's not possible currently markdown doesn't support such feature to be implemented with it's syntax.

• Rather it's better to educate or suggest user to open the link in new tab for better experience 🙂

[ShahHetvi24]

can we do like this :
When the new_technology_dict function is called, each entry will have a target="_blank" attribute.
The Jinja2 template will use this attribute to render each link with the target="_blank" value, ensuring it opens in a new tab when clicked.

[sammyhori]

• Rather it's better to educate or suggest user to open the link in new tab for better experience 🙂

That does seem to be the best we can do, perhaps a little note telling people to SHIFT+CLICK to do so.

[sammyhori]

can we do like this : When the new_technology_dict function is called, each entry will have a target="_blank" attribute. The Jinja2 template will use this attribute to render each link with the target="_blank" value, ensuring it opens in a new tab when clicked.

Whilst that might work when templating HTML and with some other markdown programs, my understanding is that GitHub removes the target attribute when rendering markdown so this unfortunately wouldn't work (see the accepted answer to this StackOverflow question).