No. I don’t know of any browser (or other user agent) that associates any special behaviours with link query strings. The query string is for the server receiving the HTTP request to deal with.
As you say in your question, the target attribute is the method for controlling (or at least suggesting) what window the link should open in.
No. I don’t know of any browser (or other user agent) that associates any special behaviours with link query strings. The query string is for the server receiving the HTTP request to deal with.
As you say in your question, the target attribute is the method for controlling (or at least suggesting) what window the link should open in.
Can you use the window.open method?
Reference: window.open(url, name, features, replace);
It allows a browser window to be named, and thus reused when clicking on new links that are formatted to work with the window.open syntax.
Example: link
Status Update: Note you can search for many window.open(); Online Generators to help build the look of the opened window. It's important to test the desired look in all browsers, as the Address Bar in each browser is rendered differently.
Hi all, I'm hoping this is the right place for this, but is there a way to something to a URL so that when that URL is linked or embedded somewhere, the link will automatically take them to a new tab?
I am trying to set a link in our top navigation menu on our WordPress site that uses Avada, and I don't have the option to just tell it to open that link in a new tab as a setting. So I was hoping I could set it to do so just by the link itself, but I'm not familiar enough with that to know if it is possible or not. Looking it up myself has only yielded results for "target=_blank" when doing hardcoding on the back end-something that isn't an option with the set up we have (or I'm just not aware of how to go about it).
Any help or advice is appreciated!
This is a trick,
function openInNewTab(url) {
window.open(url, '_blank').focus();
}
// Or just
window.open(url, '_blank').focus();
In most cases, this should happen directly in the onclick handler for the link to prevent pop-up blockers, and the default "new window" behavior. You could do it this way, or by adding an event listener to your DOM object.
<div onclick="openInNewTab('www.test.com');">Something To Click On</div>
Reference: Open a URL in a new tab using JavaScript
Nothing an author can do can choose to open in a new tab instead of a new window; it is a user preference. (Note that the default user preference in most browsers is for new tabs, so a trivial test on a browser where that preference hasn't been changed will not demonstrate this.)
CSS3 proposed target-new, but the specification was abandoned.
The reverse is not true; by specifying certain window features for the window in the third argument of window.open(), you can trigger a new window when the preference is for tabs.
If you can target your menu tag with jquery using its ID you can put something like this in an JS file that you'll add in your theme via your_theme.info
Drupal.behaviors.externalMenu = function(context, settings) {
$('#menu_id').attr('target', '_blank');
};
Or you can use the Menu attributes module.
Not per menu item. However, the External links project allows to open all external links in a new window and indicates them as such with an icon.