How to make external links in linklist widget open in a new window ?

Do you have exchange links with your friend's blog? I'm sure that some of us have a blogroll in sidebar. So how to make these links open in new windows? Follow these steps:

Step 1: Sign in your Blogger account, click Layout tab | Edit HTML, check Expand Widget Templates, scroll down and find your link list. You may also can find it by searching LinkList keyword.

Step 2: Now you put the colored code in this way and save your template:

<b:widget id='LinkList1' locked='false' title='Other blogs' type='LinkList'>
<b:includable id='main'>

<b:if cond='data:title'><h2><data:title/></h2></b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<ul>
  <b:loop values='data:links' var='link'>
    <li><a expr:href='data:link.target' target='_blank'><data:link.name/></a></li>
  </b:loop>
</ul>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

In the case of external links in posts, you could view this tip.

Posted by dv2n at 9:29 PM in Labels: Linklist widget

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13 comments: to How to make external links in linklist widget open in a new window ? so far ...

August 5, 2008 1:20 AM
Thang said...: he..he.. this tip is used for classic template only, isn't it? You can use link list by opening a page element in Layout to add links without editing your template.; August 6, 2008 7:23 PM
dv2n said...: @Thang, this tip is used for new blogger template. It makes an external link open in a new window only, having no affect on your link list data added in Layout.; November 12, 2008 4:04 AM
lauren said...: THIS DOES NOT WORK.; December 25, 2008 9:06 PM
dv2n said...: @lauren, this tip works right. Try again!; March 9, 2009 9:43 PM
redkathy said...: Thanks this works well. If you want only 1 new window for all links to open in, you can set target='new'; May 12, 2009 10:31 PM
imran said...: thx!!!:)); May 29, 2009 5:28 PM
BayingAtTheMoon said...: OK. How do you make a double underline under id? I've tried it without the double underline and it doesn't work, so it must need one.; June 1, 2009 7:36 AM
pat said...: Great! this thing really works! Thank you very much!; June 9, 2009 5:05 AM
Aziajs said...: What am I doing wrong? I tried it and I get this error message:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Element type "a" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".; June 9, 2009 5:23 AM
Aziajs said...: Ok, I just realized my mistake. It is CRUCIAL that you include the space before target='_blank'; November 7, 2009 9:00 PM
M J said...: thank's you...; November 7, 2009 11:06 PM
Tip Library said...: Works beautifully. So simple, yet so overlooked (on my part). You rock!; December 8, 2009 12:17 AM
MightyBuying.com said...: Is there any way to make this work just for post/body links... I only want my blog posts to do this seeing I have so many external links.