Open a link in a new window in reStructuredText

Question

I want to open a link in a new window using reStucturedText. Is this possible?

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Answer 1

If you don't want to modify the theme, you can do what Ivonet did but with a custom.js file in the _static/js folder, then adding it to the conf.py like this:

html_js_files = [
    'js/custom.js'
]

Leave out the html tags in _static/js/custom.js if you do this:

$(document).ready(function () {
   $('a[href^="http://"], a[href^="https://"]').not('a[class*=internal]').attr('target', '_blank');
});