How can I make the image widget on sidebar open a URL in new window?

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  travelwhiz · Member · Jun 7, 2011 at 11:57 pm

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  I would like the link URL on the image widget on the side bar to open in a new window. Is this possible? Thank you!
  Blog url: http://travelwhiz.wordpress.com/

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  designsimply · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 12:22 pm

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  That’s not an option in the image widget, but you could insert an image in a text widget using html and add target=”_blank” to the img tag similar to this:

  <img src="LINK_URL" target="_blank" />

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  travelwhiz · Member · Jun 10, 2011 at 7:37 pm

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  Thank you for the tip, expect I’m not very familiar with html…what is wrong with the following:

  <img src=”http://travelwhiz.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/logo_cor-casas-charmosas2.jpg?w=150&h=54″ class=”alignnone” width=”150″ height=”54″ target=”_blank” />

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  p3ob7o · Staff · Jun 10, 2011 at 8:41 pm

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  The code you pasted is the code to display the image, you need to put around it the code for the link itself, and this is the one that will get the target=”_blank” parameter:

  <img src=”http://travelwhiz.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/logo_cor-casas-charmosas2.jpg?w=150&h=54″ class=”alignnone” width=”150″ height=”54″ />