By smither on

I have 5.1 up and running - many thanks to all the developers - Drupal is great!

In setting up menus (Primary Links, Navigation, ...) the Path setting allows me to put in a link to an external page. Is there a way to have that external, non-Drupal, page open in a new window, ie, equivalent to:

  <a target = "_blank" href = "external link">

?

Thanks!

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Sree commented

edit the code of how the menu items open a given link .... make them to open the links in new wnd!

-- Sree --
IRC Nick: sreeveturi

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smither commented

Thanks Sree! As I read this, after editing the menu items code, then all menu items will open in a new window - is that right? I was hoping to be able to set the new window behaviour on an individual menu item level. Is that possible?

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Sree commented

U can achieve it by putting some conditionals within the code!

-- Sree --
IRC Nick: sreeveturi

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smither commented

I suspected as much, but I am not sure that my PHP coding experience is up to that! I am going to try the external links module and hold your suggestion in reserve.

Thanks again.

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tm commented

another option is the external links module. you can enable/disable the new window and icon options. settings are global, no anchor tags to reset if you change your mind. works on menus, too.

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smither commented

Thanks tm!

I will take a look at the external links module. I guess all external links in new windows would work.

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smither commented

The external links module looks like what I want, but when I installed it, it puts the external link icon next to _every_ link! Is there a setting somewhere that I missed to tell the module what the 'home' domain is?

Thanks!

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tm commented

it seems that the latest release (1.2) is supposed to address that. hmmm...

[edit] - you may wish to install the 1.1 version. i just installed the 1.2 and it did the "external everything" for me, too.

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smither commented

Interesting - my setup told me there was an update - it is the 1.1 version (I had installed the 1.2 version)!

Thanks for the hint - I removed 1.2 and installed 1.1 - exactly what I wanted!

Many thanks, tm.

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tm commented

Nice module, huh? Have to thank the maintainers properly, one day. Sorry, I neglected to say that I was posting a support request.

Btw, the 1.3 version is out, and it appears to work; don't forget the update script. You will have to determine if the "subdomain as internal" setting is useful to you or not (I had to turn it off in my situation).

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holeepassion commented

why oh why ?

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tm commented

(wow, haven't been here in a looong time; sorry!)

do you have an example on your site that is not working? and watch out for jquery versions and level of domain names.

btw, i see "edit" as anonymous...