ExternalLinksInNewWindow

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Question

How can I configure external links to always open in a new window?

Answer

Add the following to config.php:

    $UrlLinkFmt = 
      "<a class='urllink' target='_blank' href='\$LinkUrl'>\$LinkText</a>";

Discussion

The $UrlLinkFmt variable specifies the HTML to be output when an external link is generated by PmWiki. The above line simply adds target='_blank' to the HTML so that each external link is opened in a new window.

Contributors

Pm - 10-Jul-2004

(more semantic) Alternative

You could use

    $UrlLinkFmt = "<a class='urllink' rel='extern' href='\$Url'>\$LinkText</a>";

in config.php.

Then put

 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") == "extern")
     anchor.target = "_blank";
  }
 }
 window.onload = externalLinks;

into a file - say - 'extern.js'.

Adding

   <script type='text/javascript' src='PATH/extern.js'></script>

to your template will call the script on pageload.

For more on this - nicer - solution have a look at [(approve links) edit diff].

--SteffenGlueckselig

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