Hi Clouda9
I just answered this question on another thread and I would like to repeat my answer here.
Many people request this feature, so it might be worth adding this option to our link editor. The jury is still out on this, however. You may know this already, but for the benefit of others:
Right now you can get a link open in a new window/tab, but it means that you need to do a little HTML editing. Here are the steps:
1) Add text using the text widget
2) Select the text that you want the link and then click "insert link" on the text editing toolbar
3) Create your link to your chosen URL as normal, click ok
4) Then click "HTML" - the last icon on the text editing toolbar
5) You will see the code that looks like this for your link (I have used the text "Visit Wikipedia to see more information", with the link being on Wikipedia:
Visit <!-- <a href="
http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia&l...> to see more information<br> -->
All you need to do is add in target="blank" as show below:
Visit <!-- <a href="
http://www.wikipedia.org" target="blank">Wikipedia</a> to see more information<br> -->
(leave out the <! -- and the -- >)
Your link will then open in a new tab or window, depending on what browser your visitor is using.
Please note: current thinking in web usability circles is that links that open in a new window are a bad idea for a number of reasons. See:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/bewa..., for a great article by a leading expert in the field. After looking at that, if you still have a strong reason for wanting to do this, then I hope my suggestion above works for you.
I will ask our developers to consider adding this feature to the link editor.
Cosmic Sensorium