By quotientix on

Hi there,

I have one external link in my D6 Primary Links. How do I open it in a new window, or in other words: where to put the target="_blank"?

Many thanks!

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quotientix commented

Or maybe there's a possibility to open all links in drupal that begin with "http://" in new windows?

alihammad’s picture

alihammad commented

I am not sure how you could do it using the drupal menu system. Maybe theres a module. But for a quick fix I would suggest you to make a block with the menu items instead. Then place the block where you like.

Ali Hammad Raza
WordsValley

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quotientix commented

The problem is, that I'm using the module nice-menu for my primary links. So I need a kind of generic solution.

The best possible solution would be to open all http://-links in new windows... Any ideas? thx!

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quotientix commented

Nobody who can help me out?

quotientix’s picture

quotientix commented

Did nobody ever have that problem?

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quotientix commented

Push!

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Drupalace-1 commented

The External Links module will make external links open in new windows. That'll do you, unless you don't want ALL external menus opening in new windows. (And I don't know whether the module plays nicely with your Nice Menus.)

If that's no good: Hmm, does CSS have any feature to make links open in new windows?

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quotientix commented

Drupalace, many thanks for your help, external Links Module worked perfectly and opens the external link in a new window now (even in nice menus).
CSS will support the feature in CSS3, but not yet!

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Drupalace-1 commented

Glad it worked! And thanks for the tip about CSS3.
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squidz commented

rubaff - I have the same issue to solve and see that you got this module to fly for you. however, the notes say that it applies icons to external links. Is there a control to prevent that happening? Since my scenario is like yours - one primary link that goes offsite (to a blog), I don't want any icons to appear.

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Drupalace-1 commented

Yes, displaying an external link icon is purely optional when using the External Links module. You can set the option at admin/settings/extlink .

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squidz commented

The module worked perfectly. I just didn't want to go through the install motions if it didn't have the controls. But, it did. THanks for your input.

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naresh4olive commented

Excellent module. For this requirement this module extlink is sufficient. Thanks a lot for the help.

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dp69_2001 commented

Okay, anyone know how I'd do this if the link is considered internal? For instance if I want the classifieds section of the site to open in a new window, on the same domain? It would seem like the "Include links matching the pattern:" option would work but I can't seem to figure it out.

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Drupalace-1 commented

A little Googling turns up info on how to do so using CSS3, but I understand that CSS3 still isn't released. I don't offhand know of another way...

Anyone?