external links not opening in new browser window - help!

candy · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 11:56 am

I have a block that contains html code and external links in it and am trying to get these external links to open in a new browser window. I have tried to use the WYSIWYG editor to select "open in a new window" and even tried the "_blank" but when i save the block, it always reverts back to opening in the same window.

I haven't experienced this before with other versions of nuke so what gives? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

persona_non_grata · Joined: Posts: 0

Try it like this using this topic url as an example..

<a href="http://ravenphpscripts.com/postt13459.html" target="_blank">bla bla </a>

candy · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:53 pm

tried it...still opens in the same window....any other ideas?

persona_non_grata · Joined: Posts: 0

do refrsh your browser...

Raven · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 6:48 am

Have you (perhaps) overwritten the open new window property in your browser options?

candy · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:32 am

for some reason the code always reverts back to opening in the same window. i've tried refresh and my browser options haven't been changed.

Raven · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 12:43 pm

Does the code actually change? Do a View Source in the browser and see if target="_blank" is actually in the generated code.

candy · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 3:23 pm

yes the code actually changes after I save the block with the "_blank" tag while in the admin cp.

Raven · Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 8:01 pm

Is target="_blank" the only attribute of the <a> tag you are using (other than the href attribute)? If not, then in config.php, towards the bottom of the script, you should have a line that begins similar to this:

$AllowableHTML = array("b"=>1,"i"=>1,"strike"=>1,"div"=>2,"u"=>1,"a"=>2

Note in particular the "a"=>2 setting. Try changing that to "a"=>3 or whtever number of attributes/properties you have in your <a> tag.

candy · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:18 am

yes, it's the only attribute i am using.

candy · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:47 pm

i still haven't figured this out. question though....how can i get my external links to open up in a new window site-wide. For example, in my Forums if i have a link to another page in one of the posts, i'd like it to open up in a new window on top.

i am using phpbb forum and can't figure out how to get it to open up in a new window. thanks.

CodyG · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:20 pm

The following is from my config.php file ... and i'm having the same issue, but with TotalCalendar. The links in the event window are not opening in a new window despite my writing target="_blank" in the code. TC also uses fckeditor.

as 'a' => is an array of things, what could I try changing? the href or the target?

$AllowableHTML = array(
'a' => array('href' => 1, 'target' => 1, 'title' => array('minlen' => 4, 'maxlen' => 120)),

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4872

target isn't an HTML tag, so it doesn't belong in $AllowableHTML.

Try increasing the number of modifiers for href in $AllowableHTML like:

Code:

..'href' => 2,

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4872

Man, don't know WHAT I was thinking. Cody is correct. And I just tested it on nukeSEO, where I already had target attributes on the links in the recommended sites blocks, which I maintain with the WYSIWYG editor. I'll compare my $allowableHTML with the standard RN version to see if there are differences.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4872

What's in the default config.php is virtually identical to what I have:

Code:

$AllowableHTML = array(
'a' => array('href' => 1, 'target' => 1, 'title' => array('minlen' => 4, 'maxlen' => 120)),
'b' => array(),
'blockquote' => array(),
'br' => array(),
'center' => array(),
'div' => array('align' => 1),
'em' => array(),
'font' => array('face' => 1, 'style' => 1, 'color' => 1, 'size' => array('minval' => 1, 'maxval' => 7)),
'h1'=>array(),
'h2'=>array(),
'h3'=>array(),
'h4'=>array(),
'h5'=>array(),
'h6'=>array(),
'hr' => array(),
'i' => array(),
'img' => array('alt' => 1, 'src' => 1, 'hspace' => 1, 'vspace' => 1, 'width' => 1, 'height' => 1, 'border' => 1, 'align' => 1),
'li' => array(),
'ol' => array(),
'p' => array('align' => 1),
'pre' => array('align' => 1),
'span' =>array('class' => 1, 'style' => array('font-family' => 1, 'color' => 1)),
'strong' => array(),
'strike'=>array(),
'sub'=>array(),
'sup'=>array(),
'table' => array('align' => 1, 'border' => 1, 'cell' => 1, 'width' => 1, 'cellspacing' => 1, 'cellpadding' => 1),
'td' => array('align' => 1, 'width' => 1, 'valign' => 1, 'height' => 1, 'rowspan' => 1, 'colspan' => 1 ),
'tr' => array('align' => 1),
'tt'=>array(),
'u' => array(),
'ul' => array(),
);

So the question is - what is different between the HTML source in preview and the HTML source that is saved?

CodyG · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:00 am

It's only a firefox issue??

candy · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:21 am

nope, for me it's in any browser.

sweetmail · Hangin' Around Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Posts: 40

I am running 8.0 with patch 3.3. I am having exactly the same problem here. Did we ever find out how to fix it?

Many thanks in advance

sweetmail · Hangin' Around Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Posts: 40

I am running 8.0 patch 3.3

I added the "href"=>1 and "target"=>1 and change "a"=> from 2 to 3.

$AllowableHTML = array("img"=>2,"href"=>1, "target"=>1,"tr"=>1,"td"=>2,"table"=>2,"div"=>2,"p"=>2,"hr"=>1,"b"=>1,"i"=>1,"strike"=>1,"u"=>1,"font"=>2,"a"=>3,"em"=>1,
"br"=>1,"strong"=>1,"blockquote"=>1,"tt"=>1,"li"=>1,"ol"=>1,"ul"=>1,"center"=>1);

It is still NOT working. I cannot open new window!!!

Raven · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:59 pm

sweetmail, Please do not double post. This is being addressed in your other thread.

sweetmail · Hangin' Around Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Posts: 40

Sorry Raven.

I have just came across this thread today and see that it is exactly what I am experience. I just want to see if Candy has resolved that already.

Thank you for letting me know that I have made a mistake.

candy · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:54 pm

any ideas on this issue? i still cannot open links in new window even when manually typing in the "target="_blank""command.

nuke is somehow changing my code as i just made a test block to see if it worked and it doesn't. thanks.

Raven · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:04 pm

Is this issue unique to your nuke installation or can you not open up new windows at all?

candy · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:40 pm

i can't open up new windows using the "_blank" code anywhere in nuke.

Raven · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:14 pm

Are you using NukeSentinel(tm)? If so, what version?

Are you sure you don't have a pop-up blocker issue for your site's url?