diff --git a/Classes/ViewHelpers/Link/PageViewHelper.php b/Classes/ViewHelpers/Link/PageViewHelper.php
index f30ee4d..e1bc192 100644
--- a/Classes/ViewHelpers/Link/PageViewHelper.php
+++ b/Classes/ViewHelpers/Link/PageViewHelper.php
@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ class PageViewHelper extends \TYPO3\CMS\Fluid\ViewHelpers\Link\PageViewHelper {
 	public function render($pageUid = NULL, array $additionalParams = array(), $pageType = 0, $noCache = FALSE, $noCacheHash = FALSE, $section = '', $linkAccessRestrictedPages = FALSE, $absolute = FALSE, $addQueryString = FALSE, array $argumentsToBeExcludedFromQueryString = array(), $frontendPath = '', $backupDomain = '') {
 
 		$uriBuilder = $this->controllerContext->getUriBuilder();
+		$pieces = preg_split('/\s+/', $pageUid);
+		$target = '';
+
+		foreach($pieces as $piece) {
+				if($piece == '_blank' || g$piece == '_top') {
+						$target = $piece;
+				}
+		}
+
 		$uri = $uriBuilder
 			->reset()
 			->setTargetPageUid($pageUid)
@@ -81,6 +90,10 @@ public function render($pageUid = NULL, array $additionalParams = array(), $page
 			$uri = self::http_build_url($parts);
 		}
 
+		if($target) {
+			$this->tag->addAttribute('target', $target);
+		}
+
 		$this->tag->addAttribute('href', $uri);
 		$this->tag->setContent($this->renderChildren());
 
@@ -125,4 +138,4 @@ public static function http_build_url(array $parts){
 			$hash.
 			$parts['fragment'];
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}