How to put target="_blank" in jQuery?

Question

I tried many variations to put target="_blank" in links with jQuery, but I can't get it to work.

Here's my code:

var thumbfile = "<?php echo $smit_iturl_v; ?>"; jQuery(document).ready(function () {     var actualHost = jQuery.trim(jQuery.url.attr("host"));     jQuery("a img").each(function (i) {          if (jQuery.trim(jQuery.url.setUrl(jQuery(this).attr("src")).attr("host")) == actualHost &&                   (jQuery.url.setUrl(jQuery(this).attr("src")).attr("path")).indexOf("wp-content") != -1 &&              isImage(jQuery.url.setUrl(jQuery(this).attr("src")).attr("file"))) {              var parentTag = jQuery(this).parent().get(0).tagName;             parentTag = parentTag.toLowerCase();              if (parentTag == "a" &&             jQuery.url.setUrl(jQuery(this).parent().attr("href")).attr("host") == actualHost &&             jQuery.url.setUrl(jQuery(this).parent().attr("href")).attr("path").indexOf("wp-content") != -1 &&             isImage(jQuery(this).parent().attr("href"))) {                  var description = (jQuery(this).attr("alt") == "") ? jQuery(this).attr("title") : jQuery(this).attr("alt");                 jQuery(this).parent().attr("href", thumbfile +                         "?title=" + jQuery(this).attr("title") +                         "&description=" + description +                         "&url=" + stripDomain(jQuery(this).parent().attr("href"))                  );             }         }     }); 

How can I do it?

Answer 1

Too much information! This should work fine:

$("a").attr("target","_blank"); 

See the example here http://jsbin.com/evexi/edit. It works perfectly.