External Link

Processor name: external-link

This processor will find any external links (links that start with http:, https:, mailto:, etc.), and will create a HTML link with the target attribute set to "_blank". This allows external links in Markdown to be opened in a new tab.

The default HTML for external links is:

<a href='{{ link_path }}{{ link_query }}' target="_blank">{{ text }}</a>

Using the following example tag:

Check out this [website](https://www.google.com).

The resulting HTML would be:

<p>Check out this <a href="https://www.google.com" target="_blank">website</a>.</p>