28 Apr, 2009
Web Development » Snippets, xHTML » Open link in a new window using jQuery
HTML:
<a href="http://www.google.com" rel="external">Google</a>
Javascript:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a[rel=external]").attr('target', '_blank');
});
Or
$(document).ready(function() {
$('a[rel="external"]').click( function() {
window.open( $(this).attr('href') );
return false;
});
});
1 | iraqi hosting
examples please, i can’t imagine that, and i don’t have time to try it myself
thank you in advance
4 | Derek
Terrific. Thank you very much for sharing. I did wonder what you were supposed to do with no target attribute allowed in XHTML.
Further to Eugene’s comment above, the top example works fine for me.
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