It works fine. Post your link code and system info, plus info about template and extensions.

Or better, use the darn text editor to insert links with 'Target: New window' option.

gee thanks.
Well yes i did select the target NEW window, but it did not. So I dig via the code editor and did a target="_BLANK", save/close and tested the link and it did not open in a new window.
However, i did notice when I look into the code again the target="_BLANK" i had just put there was gone.

here are a couple of screenshots of before and after the target="_BLANK" via the editor.
thanks again.

System info etc...

Platform Arastta 1.5.2 Stable [ Nairobi ] 20-January-2016 17:30 GMT +3
PHP Version 5.4.45
PHP Built On Linux secure.server-12.com 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 23:06:41 UTC 2016 x86_64
Database Version 5.5.5-10.1.21-MariaDB
Database Collation latin1_swedish_ci
Web Server Apache
Server Interface (SAPI) cgi-fcgi
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Rune Rasmussen wrote:
It works fine. Post your link code and system info, plus info about template and extensions.

Also, which editor are you using?

PS! Consider getting your PHP version updated, 5.4 is EOL since long ago: http://php.net/eol.php

Rune Rasmussen wrote:

Also, which editor are you using?

TinyMCE

Rune Rasmussen wrote:

Rune Rasmussen wrote:
PS! Consider getting your PHP version updated, 5.4 is EOL since long ago: http://php.net/eol.php

SITE Host Server Information: PHP Version 5.6.30

Arastta information: PHP Version 5.4

what now?

thanks so far.