Append target="_blank" with JavaScript for SilverStripe

An extension to automatically add JavaScript on all pages to add target="_blank" to all outgoing links,
as well as "download links" such as PDF, ZIP, TAR, DOC, PPT and Excel files.

For security, it also adds rel="[noopener] to the outbound links to prevent cross-site exploit (see here).

Requirements

• SilverStripe 4+

For SilverStripe 3, please refer to the SilverStripe3 branch.

Installation

Installation can be done either by composer or by manually downloading a release.

Via composer

composer require "axllent/silverstripe-links-to-blank"

Usage

By default the module will automatically include some compressed inline JavaScript into your page.
If you prefer to include this as a separate JavaScript asset instead then you can define this in a yaml config
(eg: mysite/_config/config.yml):

Axllent\LinksToBlank\LinksToBlank:
  inline: false