Make Search Results open in new tab

Question

Ive implemented a SharePoint 2013 Farm Wide search for my site collections, and now want the URL's that get returned to open up in a new tab.

Is there a relatively effortless way to do this rather than messing with the display template, or is that the recommended way?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Good day!

If this is for a search results webpart (like results.aspx), than what I found easiest was to add a content editor at the bottom of the page and add a little jquery to achieve this. You can use something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(".ms-srch-item-link").attr("target","_blank");
</script>

This jquery will target all hyperlinks that appear in the search results webpart and change their attributes to open in a new tab. No messing with display templates.

Answer 2

you can override the default template rather easy - or you could add a jquery script to the search result page that handles the click event.

Answer 3

add script editor webpart

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(function(){
     $('body').on('DOMNodeInserted',".ms-srch-item-link",function(e){
         $(e.target).attr("target","_blank");
     })
 })
</script>  

good for ajax paging of search results webpart