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How do I set InDesign hyperlinks to open a new tab in browser

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
March 11, 2021
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Hi

I am trying to work out how to set InDesign hyperlinks to open a new tab in a browser. It is not convenient for me to recreate or edit the links in Acrobat as we have alot of links within documents, so I am looking for an InDesign solution.

Kind regards

Daniel

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Correct answer dw62059930

Give link to your request on uservoice here. And somebody who likes your idea will add "plus" if knows where your post.

Good idea, the link to the uservoice suggestion is below

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/42899058-incorporate-the-feature-for-hyperlinks-and-buttons

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webwmn

Known Participant

I googled the question and got a couple of options but I didn’t much like them. Not a clean solution. Gad. Here it is 2026 and hyperlinks have been around since, what, 1966?

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @webwmn and everyone,

I’m sorry that this functionality is still not available in InDesign.

I understand how useful it would be to have the ability to control whether hyperlinks open in a new browser tab or window directly from InDesign, especially for workflows involving a large number of links.

I'm currently checking this further with the product team to see if there are any updates, roadmap information that can be shared regarding this request. I'll update the thread as soon as I hear back.

Thanks for your patience and for continuing to provide feedback on this feature.

Abhishek

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connorhawke

Participant

+1 for this. Can't believe it's still not an option.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

You can search for requested features - or request your own feature update

https://indesign.uservoice.com/

Geоrge

Legend

Eugene is right, but not fully. You will wait these things decades of years, as Adobe love do (hey, Adobe - hello with top-1/2/3 request to you, it's a shame of the shame).

Do some better "uservoice attack". Do as Eugene say, then

- Catch all similar requests and post in it about to merge into one (post link in this post that you think is main thread about). Repeat this every month if they won't merge it;

- Do a "voice" in the main thread;

- Say us here that you find or make your feature request, give a link and then future forum readers who's needs this too will add a voice to it.

P.S. Feature request about this thread problem "ready" years ago. See "correct answer". 2023-2019=4 years. 4 is not a 10 <devil smile>

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/37223290-open-hyperlinks-in-new-tabhttps://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/42899058-incorporate-the-feature-for-hyperlinks-and-buttons

Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner

davidg9502748

Participating Frequently

I have been researching the same thing for hours now and I'm on Adobe Help Chat but not looking good.

To me, the ability to determine HOW a hyperlink opens is just as important as the link itself. The fact that code that's been used as an <A> tag modifier since HTML 3 is still not available is amazing to me when I see all the pointless features I never use in InDesign being added. Acrobat has the ability to read it since it's the only current way to set a Target="_blank" to get a new window at the current time. If Acrobat can read it, InDesign should be able to insert in and keep it with the hyperlink library for future updates. This isn't a bug, to me this is a broken feature.

Here's an additional place to insert your comments and suggestins, since this one doesn't seem to be getting much traction.
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/37223290-open-hyperlinks-in-new-tab

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Add target="_blank" in Indesign hyperlink

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Scratch that - I was thinking of something else - apologies.

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dw62059930Author

Inspiring

That's fine, I tried it just in case it worked.

Srishti_Bali

Legend

Hi Daniel,

I am afraid, InDesign doesn't have this option right now. Please share this as a feature request here ( https://indesign.uservoice.com/ ).

This forum is directly monitored by our developers, they might look into implementing it in future releases.

Regards,

Srishti

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dw62059930Author

Inspiring

Hi Srishti

Thanks for the feedback, I have added the request to the forum as suggested. Hopefully this is something that can be incorporated quickly as it seems like a simple feature that would benefit alot of people. As it stands I have to use an ugly flipbook software method which seems a bit dated but does allow this feature as standard.

Regards

Danel

Geоrge

Legend

Give link to your request on uservoice here. And somebody who likes your idea will add "plus" if knows where your post.

Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner

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