SharePoint Lessons Learned

Let me first start by saying the script we're providing is adapted from script posted by Ricky Spears (http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/09/make-selected-links-in-links-list-open.html)

OOB Sharepoint Link Lists do not provide you the option to have a links open in a new window. The following steps and script will allow for such functionality.

Steps:

1. Add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to the page where the linked list web part is located.
2. Select Modify Shared Web Part on the newly added CEWP
3. Now click the "Source Editor..." button that is now present and insert the following script (Note, you can choose to hide the title and chrome of this web part so that it is, in-effect, hidden from the end-user):

   <script language="JavaScript">
   _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("rewriteLinks");
           
   function rewriteLinks() {
     //create an array to store all
     var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
               
     //loop through the array
     for (var x=0; x<anchors.length; x++) {
       //check to see if the current anchor element contain #openinnewwindow
       if (anchors[x].outerHTML.indexOf('#openinnewwindow')>0) {
         //add the [target] attribute and rewrite the [href] attribute
         anchors[x].target = "_blank";
         anchors[x].href = anchors[x].href.replace(/#openinnewwindow/,'');
       }
     }
   }
   </script>
   

4. Next, add a new link to the linked list and append the following text to the end of your URL "#openinnewwindow" (e.g. http://www.google.com#openinnewwindow ).
5. Finally, click on your link and it will now open in a new window.