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