It is a very common occurrence to need to open a menu link in a new tab. Currently the prescribed way to do this is to create a Template for the Menu Items. This involves a lot of manual implementation  (verbose template code,  helper methods, changing the menu item object to not use the Url property so as to override the default UrlField behavior). This is a lot of extra work to accomplish a very common and simple task. 

I propose that a new property be introduced to the Menu component (to be added to Menu Items) - a boolean field that defines whether or not to open the link in a new tab (i.e. "NewTab", or "External", or something of the like). It could default to false so that, in most cases, it could be ignored. But if set to true, the Menu component would handle adding "target='_blank'" and "rel='noopener noreferer'" to the link, while leaving all of the other functionality and styling in place. 

It would greatly simplify the usage. And I would suggest that every programming who is building navigation menus would have a case where it's needed.

I would think, though I haven't looked at the core code yet, that this would be a relatively simple feature to add.   

public class MenuItem
{
    public string Text { get; set; }
    public ISvgIcon? Icon { get; set; }
    public string Url { get; set; } = string.Empty;
    public bool NewTab { get; set; } = false;
    public List<MenuItem>? Items { get; set; }

    public MenuItem(string text, ISvgIcon? icon, string url, bool newTab, List<MenuItem>? items)
    {
        Text = text;
        Icon = icon;
        Url= url;
        NewTab = newTab;
        Items = items;
    }
}