EvB

XHTML-valid new window links

27th February 2009

I always have to look this up. Run this on page load and give all 'a' tags the attribute rel="external" to create XHTML valid links that open in a new window. Goodbye target="_blank"

function externalLinks() {
    if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return; 
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); 
    for (var i=0; i<anchors.length) {
        var anchor = anchors[i]; 
        if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external") {
           anchor.target = "_blank"; 
        } 
    }
 }