urlize to accept target attribute as parameter

[Timothy Schilling]

The anchor tag in HTML supports a target attribute (​https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#attr-target) that has a set number of options. It is helpful to be able to control the user's nagivation by specifying whether a link on a page opens in the current view or in a new tab/window.

I propose adding a new parameter to the internal API django.utils.html.urlize and the public template filters urlize and urlizetrunc.

[Carlton Gibson]

Stack Overflow has a suggestion here:

# <app name>/templatetags/url_target_blank.py

from django import template
register = template.Library()

def url_target_blank(text):
    return text.replace('<a ', '<a target="_blank" ')

url_target_blank = register.filter(url_target_blank, is_safe = True)

Example of usage:

{% load url_target_blank %}
...
{{ post_body|urlize|url_target_blank }}

​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295725/extending-urlize-in-django

I don't know if that's good enough finally, or whether it's worth adding the API here, but it would serve as a workaround.

[Timothy Schilling]

Ah, that will do for me. I probably should have come up with that myself.

I'd be happy to write up the PR for this if there's consensus on adding it. Otherwise this can be closed as the workaround is sufficient.

[Carlton Gibson]

Thanks Tim! In that case, let's say wontfix as no-code beats code 9 times out of 10 🙂