User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: February 16, 2012/@comment-460966-20120215231229/@comment-1401334-20120216050942

Currently there is no way to force a link to open in a new tab with HTML. As Randomtime mentioned, whether a link marked with  defaults to open in a new tab or in a new window depends entirely on the browser settings. Of course, that may change after the release of CSS3.