Gallery: External link in new window/tab?

I have an image in my gallery that i need to link to an external site. I need this to open in a new tab otherwise it will send customers off of my site, not ideal.

Squarespace have told me this is not a currently available feature (no idea why).

Does anyone know a way around this/way to inject code to help me out?

When you add a link to the image, put in the following:

https://yourlinkhere.com"target="_blank

it works the same for files, example:

/s/01.jpg"target="_blank

I hope that helps!

Essentially you'll add "target="_blank to the end of your URL with no space in-between.

Great workaround Jasminerh - just used on our page here http://www.alliants.com/our-work/

Any idea why the "Open In New Window" option isn't simply available?

Thanks Jasminerh! Worked like a charm. Very helpful!

Hi Sam, did you ever get this to work on a slider gallery?

I hadn't actually tried but I just did and it doesn't work unfortunately.

http://www.alliants.com/slider-example/

Oddly when you look at the code target="_blank" is there.

Squarespace??

Thanks Jasminerh! It works like a charm!

samfinding_alliants, the solution works but not instantly, you’ll have to wait some minutes to take effect.

I have noticed this delay on other things implemented - why is that?

@SOIN, is that a delay in the window or tab opening? Could you post a link to a page that shows this?

neither btw - it was after saving the link, to open externally, it did not take affect at first. Seemed to take 5-10 min then worked - did not seem like a cache issue- but that was in march.

When I try to use this style of link for an image in my gallery, it says it is an invalid link...I tried to upload a photo of the issue, but I'm too new.

So I put in my link precisely as instructed, but there's a red warning saying "please enter a valid URL."

Is there a reason for this? Please help : (

this does not work for me... i am trying to make links from images in a gallery open in a new tab - when i use this: http://www.google.com" target="_blank format i get an error to please use a valid URL... am i typing something wrong?

you you to close the close quote at the end of the word blank if i'm reading this correctly e.g. "target="_blank"

I think the fact that there is a space after the .com" target="_blank" is making squarespace give the error... because it's not the full <a href?

You need to add the target attribute into your anchor link

<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank"> link text </a>

To add some clarification here, this is what you're doing:

To get a link to open in a new page, the proper HTML is:

<a href="http://answers.squarespace.com/questions/23324/gallery-external-link-in-new-windowtab" target="_blank">Link</a>

Squarespace doesn't offer the "Open in new window" checkbox in the gallery images like they do in the image block and other link fields. That checkbox simply adds the

target="_blank"

code before the close bracket.

The hack for gallery links to open in a new window is to add the necessary code for it to open in a new window before the closing quotation marks, which is why you add this to the end of your URL (without closing quotes):

"target="_blank

The first set of quotes are the closing quotes for the URL, and the original closing quotes that Squarespace provides become the closing quotes for the target="_blank".

Since Squarespace doesn't allow spaces in its URLs and gives you an error if you try to add it, you need to leave the space before target out.

Hope that helps!

See my answer that gives more detail: http://answers.squarespace.com/questions/23324/gallery-external-link-in-new-windowtab/96241

I would like to know to use this as well. I am using the Devlin template and get the same red warning message.

To open in a new tab you have to add target="_blank" with the anchor tag...For example if you click that image , it will open in new tab.

Code is a href="http://www.loansbazaar.com/images/credit-card-apply-online.jpg" target="_blank"

Is anyone able to help me as mine is not working? I am trying to get a file to open in a new window from a gallery.

I have done -

/s/"H&BBrochure.pdf" target="blank"

Any ideas why it is taking me to an unknown error page? @jasminerh @samfinding_alliants @Mixtus Media @AndersArrenius

Thanks

To all of those who are getting an error. The reason is that in a few of the postings listed on this page, people have said to add the

http://yourlinkhere.com" target="_blank

in the URL box. The problem is that there is an extra space before the

target="_blank

area. Just get rid of that extra space and it should work just fine. So, in conclusion, the exact coding should be:

http://yourlinkhere.com"target="_blank

Hope this helps.

@nataliemumford @jasminerh @samfinding_alliants @Mixtus Media @AndersArrenius @mpcole73

None of these things work.

None of these things work.

Thank you very much. Great tip.

@squaredeb thank you!