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Hey all,
whenever I post a story with an external link that I want to open in a new window, my target attribute is stripped from the link. Is there some other way to post a link which opens externally? I tried both target="new" and target="_blank"

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Luhme summa dat GL.

OK, Chuck, I did search the forum... I will check around the site some more. The one post I saw that had replies didn't have an answer...

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Luhme summa dat GL.

OK, so once and for all, here is the answer: (since I found the answer as snippets across multiple topics)

To allow links on the links page to open in a new window, edit linkdetail.thtml in the layout/(themename)/links. You can add a target attribute to the default link tag for that page specifically.

To allow link targets in stories, edit config.php, in the allowed tags array. For the a tag, add 'target' => 1. This will allow the target tag to be used. Demonstrated here (unlocked tag on story) and here (modified links page tag).

One last question that I didn't see answered. Where do I go to add that attribute to the What's New block on the front page for new links posted there?

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Luhme summa dat GL.

see COM_whatsNewBlock() in lib-common.php.

I think this will work only on the links and not the new stories or comments.

Add the target="_blank" tag to two lines in the lib-common.php. Look for $newlinks[] one will be for links over 16 characters and the other for less than 16.

It worked on my site Here!

Let me know if it works.

Lunarex

How would you put it in the lib-custom.php so when you do an upgrade you wouldn't loose target tags that was put in the lib-common.php?

Lunarex

just delete the function from lib-common and put it into lib-custom. when you upgrade, you'll have to delete the function from lib-common again... easier just to remember your changes--gotta go in there any way.