Here is an example  <a id=”ctl00_contentSection_ViewSeleniumWiki” target=”_blank” href=”http://www.seleniumwiki.com”>View Selenium Wiki</a>
If you use selenium IDE to click on the link you will get the error message : Link has target ‘_blank’, which is not supported in Selenium! Randomizing target to be:

Here is the solution

<tr>
<td>storeAttribute</td>
<td>//a[@id='ctl00_contentSection_ViewSeleniumWiki']/@href</td>
<td>href</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>echo</td> ' this is only optional
<td>${href}</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>open</td>
<td>${href}</td>
<td></td>
</tr>


Submitted by Pavandeep Puddupakkam

How did this solution work for you? Do you have a better alternative? Feel free to share your thoughts in comments section below.