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cableghost
Member
Posted 4 years ago #

As reported by W3C some time ago, target="_blank" is not good authoring and will have an impact.

I wonder if you could, instead, implement a jscript function to open external links in a new window.

-Scott
stvwlf
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Before:
external link
After:
external link
```
function externalLinks() {
  if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return;
  var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
  for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) {
   var anchor = anchors[i];
   if (anchor.getAttribute("href") &amp;&amp;
     anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external")
    anchor.target = "_blank";
  }
 }
 window.onload = externalLinks;
```
As this is the kind of script you'll want to deploy across your entire site, you should copy this code into a separate file (e.g. external.js), and then load it in every page on your site with the following code, which should appear in the <head> tag of each document:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/external.js">
</script>

stvwlf
Member
Posted 4 years ago #

oops

where it said

external link

its supposed to say

Before:
<a href="document.html" target="_blank">external link</a>
After:
<a href="document.html" rel="external">external link</a>

cableghost
Member
Posted 4 years ago #

Thank you!

When you say add the script inside the Head section of each document, does that mean every php file that has a head section? For my theme, I'm wondering if I could just add it to my header.php

-Scott
stvwlf
Member
Posted 4 years ago #

that's what it means translated into WP - header.php - these are quotes from an old article
cableghost
Member
Posted 4 years ago #

Thank you!

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