Quite often I wish to add links inside the chatroom, but as it is contained within an iframe I am forced to use a single-bracket link with an asterisk (*) to make links open in a new tab.

This prevents me from using the [[[ page-name | ]]] syntax to automatically show the page title … but the biggest problem are visitors and other Wikidot users that don't know about (or don't care about) adding the asterisk. I am frequently asked about why links are "broken" in the chatroom.

The solution would be some way to force all links posted in the chatroom to open in a new window automatically. This would solve the issue where random visitors to my site post a link, and I have to keep editing it to add in the asterisk (*) myself.

I'm not sure what that solution would be, or how it would be implemented. Perhaps a special div class, that tells Wikidot to add target="_blank" to every link inside the div when rendering the page?

Or, as the chatroom is powered by the ListPages module, an additional attribute forcing any links generated within the ListPages module body to open in a new window/tab would also be a solution.

My point: How it works now isn't ideal, and something needs to be done. I'm hoping that Wikidot decides on a solution that suits them, and implements it.