How to Open Hugo Links in a New Tab

I researched how to make product and website links open in a new tab, and here are my notes.

Hugo’s Markdown engine is blackfriday.

blackfriday has an hrefTargetBlank option for <a href="" target="_blank">, which allows links to open in a new tab.

The setup is very simple.

For config.toml, use this:

[blackfriday]
  hrefTargetBlank = true

For config.yml, use this:

blackfriday:
    hrefTargetBlank: true

After that, just restart the server.