Re: howto : link opens a new window?

"Tomas Nekvasil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1041

Very good. In essence, the article describes this:

JavaScript to be loaded with every page:

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;


Links to open in a new window:

<a href="document.html" rel="external">external link</a>


I would probably extend that a little to allow for named windows (using
'external' as a prefix to the target name, for example). I like this
solution. Can anyone else see a need for a JavaScript library yet? To be
able to put a tag in a template, to indicate that new-window links are used
in that template, and then have the appropriate JS file automatically
included would be great. That's what I dream of, at least.

-- JJ