Opening links in new window....

[dave u]

I've been trying to make all the ads on the site open in a new window, rather than have people leaving the site to go somewhere else.

I've got most of them working by putting the target="_blank" bit of code in after the href= part, but it won' work with the amazon search box one.

Any ideas how I can get around this so it opens in a new window?

[kelster]

No reason why it shouldn't work. Anyhow you can try some javascript. Add an onclick event for the hyperlink with the code - onClick="window.open('http://www.targeturl.html','mywindow')"

So it would be....

<a href="hash symbol goes in here, but seeing as I am on a Mac and it has no fucking hash symbol you'll just have to imagine that there is one here" onClick="window.open('http://www.targeturl.com','mywindow')">Amazon</a>

[Nick Leeson]

Dave if you mean the amazon search one it's because it's not an image ad. It's an actual search form and it's hosted on amazon's servers so you don't have any control over it. There might be an option in your amazon control panel to open it in a new window but i really doubt it to be honest.

[Acid]

Tell people to hold control when they click a link.

[DJLJ]

Originally Posted by kelster No reason why it shouldn't work. Anyhow you can try some javascript. Add an onclick event for the hyperlink with the code - onClick="window.open('http://www.targeturl.html','mywindow')" So it would be.... <a href="hash symbol goes in here, but seeing as I am on a Mac and it has no fucking hash symbol you'll just have to imagine that there is one here" onClick="window.open('http://www.targeturl.com','mywindow')">Amazon</a>

Hash is shift-3 ....

[kelster]

Originally Posted by DJLJ Hash is shift-3 ....

That would be alt-3. Such a pain in the arse though.

[DJLJ]

Originally Posted by kelster That would be alt-3. Such a pain in the arse though.

Not on a US layout it isn't.

[Mr.SB]

Hey Dave, I don't want to start another thread about this but just fyi, the drop down box for forum thread search is now being blocked by the product search thing below it.