OpenCart 2.x. How to make footer social icons open in new tab

You may already know how to manage social icons in OpenCart 2.x template. In this video tutorial we are going to show you how to make social icons open in new tab.

Social icons links are opened in the same window by default. But you can make them open in new a tab if needed. To do that you will need to do the following code change:

1. Please, connect to your server using FTP access or use the hosting cPanel FileManager tool.

2. Open the catalog\view\theme\theme649\template\module folder to see a tm_social_list.tpl file.

3. Locate the HTML code for your social icon:

4. Change this code to:

5. You may notice that we added target="_blank" attribute. It allows you to open link in a new tab. It can also take the following values:

   • _self loads page in the same frame as it was clicked

   • _parent loads it in the parent frame-set.

   • _top loads link in the full body of the window

   • framename is used to load link in a named frame

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

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