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HOW TO OPEN LINKS IN A NEW TAB IN MAINROAD HUGO THEME

HOW TO OPEN LINKS IN A NEW TAB IN MAINROAD HUGO THEME

I bet that many of you would like to open site links not in the same window, but in a background tab. Such behavior is restricted by default settings of most Hugo themes. Mainroad is restricting it also. Here is a solution on how to overcome weird limitation. Create file render-link.html in _default folder of the theme. Name_of_your_site\themes\mainroad\layouts\_default\_markup\render-link.html Contents of render-link.html should be like this: <a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .