XHTML: Open a link in a new window
Mario Laflamme March 9th, 2006
Sure, you can to use the tag target=”_blank” to open a link in a new window with XHTML, but this tag is not valid. A simple and effective alternative is to insert the following JavaScript function in your pages and to add the tag rel=”external” to the appropriate links.
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”JavaScript”>
function externalLinks() {
if (!document.getElementsByTagName) {
return;
}
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(”a”);
for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) {
var anchor = anchors[i];
if (anchor.getAttribute(”href”) &&
anchor.getAttribute(”rel”) == ”external”) {
anchor.target = ”_blank”;
}
}
}
window.onload = externalLinks;
</script>
Entry Filed under: JavaScript, XHTML
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mike3 September 30th, 2006 at 1:58 am
thanks for posting this! i had been trying to get my pages to pass the w3c xhtml validator but still have some links open in separate windows.