Open External Links in New Tab ============================== A common requirement by marketing teams is to force external links to open in a new tab, rather than to navigate the current tab. Wagtail has strong opinions against this practice, hence Wagtail does not provide the ability to set the ``target`` attribute of links in rich text fields. But, the reality of the matter is that not everyone shares this opinion. Wagtail CRX provides a setting that will use JavaScript to open all external links, meaning any link not on the current domain, to open with ``target='_blank'``: **Settings > General > Open all external links in new tab**