By pianoroad on

I am very disappointed to learn I cannot get things like banner clicks to open in a new window. I am not a programmer, but would like to understand if there is a workaround for this problem. The suggestion above about adding that code to the "theme file" would be something I'd be willing to try if I understood more about it.

Doug

www.pianoroad.com

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ergophobe commented

Better solution is Javascript links which, unlike target, are acceptable in HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 strict DTDs (target properly belongs only in a framed site).

The JS solution also has better usability as it degrades to a default behavior (regular link) for users with JS turned off (extra spaces in code below are to make it acceptable to Drupal - keeps getting refused for "suspicious input").

<a href="my/link" o n c l i c k = " w i n d o w . o p e n ('my/link/', 'windowName', [options]), r e t u r n f a l s e;">

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pianoroad commented

Thanks for your reply. As I said, I am not a programmer, so not sure what that string means, but if you give me a little help with it, I think I might be able to use it.

I am trying to get my banner ads to open in a new window. So what would I do with this code string? In the future, I may want some other page to open in a new window, but for now, am mostly interested in the banners and the RSS feeds.

Thanks.

www.pianoroad.com

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ergophobe commented

You would use it for your links (instead of the link that uses target="_blank"). You would simply replace "/my/link" (both occurences) with the actual link you want to use.