Open External Links In New Window


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Copy this code and paste it in your HTML
  1. $('a').each(function() {
  2. var a = new RegExp('/' + window.location.host + '/');
  3. if(!a.test(this.href)) {
  4. $(this).click(function(event) {
  5. event.preventDefault();
  6. event.stopPropagation();
  7. window.open(this.href, '_blank');
  8. });
  9. }
  10. });
  11.  
  12. You can do this straight with HTML, but that is invalid markup, this takes care of business without invalid code and unnecessary markup.
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  14. Or, you can still avoid the validation problems and just append the class target=_blank thing to any links with href attributes starting with http://. The example below only targets links in a #content area. Scoping down like that might be a good idea in case your menus are dynamic and create full URLs.
  15.  
  16. $("#content a[href^='http://']").attr("target","_blank");

URL: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/open-external-links-in-new-window/

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