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HTML

<div class="portfolio-item-filter">
      <a class="gdlr-button active" href="#" data-category="All">Work</a>
      <a class="gdlr-button" href="http://www.google.com" data-category="film">Film</a>
      <a class="gdlr-button" href="#" data-category="print">Print</a>
   </div>

JavaScript

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
	 $link = jQuery('a[data-category="film"]');
   target = $link.attr("target");
   href = $link.attr("href");
   window.open(href, target);
});