Modifying Ordinary Hyperlinks

[Justin Hancock]

I'm looking for a simple piece of code, that when it comes across a hyperlink:

<a href="www.blah.com">Click Here</a>

...it changes it to:

<a href="www.blah.com" target="_blank">Click Here</a>

I run a gaming website and the news editors don't know very much HTML, and they don't want to put the target="_blank" into every hyperlink. They'd simply forget. Also, I want this code to have a closing tag of some sort, so it only changes links that are in the specified area, and nothing outside of it.

[Cecil]

Try the following just above the </head>

<base target="_blank">

That's all you should need.

[Andrew-J2000]

_blank
_top
_parent
_self

or your own (without underscore)

[Justin Hancock]

Originally posted by Cecil
Try the following just above the </head>

<base target="_blank">

That's all you should need.

But I only want this for a specific part of the page...not the whole page.

[TonySayz]

If you use the

<base target="_blank">

in the header, you can direct each link that you don't want to have target="_blank" with target="whatever".

<a href="target.html"> will be targeted to "_blank"

but

<a href="yourtarget.html" target="yourtarget"> will be directed to "yourtarget"

Then whenever your editors post their own articles with links they will be using the _blank target but the rest of your links will use your own target.

[Andrew-J2000]

base has been deprecated from html 4.01 so don't use it.

[Skunk]

If you still want to use <base> I know from experience that in IE you can put it half way down a page and only links after it will be affected - then stick in another <base> tag later on to revert behaviour back to default. This is a horrible hack, I very much doubt it is supportedby the standards and gawd knows what it will do in other browsers so probably best to avoid