How does link target work?

[Former Member]

We have a CMSLinkComponent with the URL specified and the link target = newWindow. But the system fails to open the link in a new window. In fact it renders as a plain HTML link. Is there something we are missing to get the link to open in a new window?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

No target="_blank" does not appear in the HTML.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Ok there debug CMSLinkComponentRenderer to find out why not

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Upon trying to debug the CMSLinkComponentRenderer I realized we weren't using the CMSLinkComponent directly but instead were building an HTML link and pulling out the URL. I fixed this to use the cmsLinkComponent.tag

[Former Member]

Does the HTML link have: target="_blank"? This is what should be rendered if it is supposed to open in a new window