extending urlize in django

Question

the urlize function from django.utils.html converts urls to clickable links. My problem is that I want to append a target=\"_blank\" into the \"< href..>\", so that I ope

Answer 1

You shouldn't add target="_blank" to your links, it's deprecated. Users should decide themselves if where they want to open a link.

You can still open the link with unobtrusive JavaScript like so (using jQuery):

$('.container a').click(function(e){e.preventDefault();window.open(this.href);});

That said, you could write your own filter, but you'd have to copy a lot of code from django.utils.html.urlize, not really DRY.