A way to set a target in the weblink option

Is there a way to set the target in the weblink option?
I know it is not valid xhtml but what if you need to open a extarnal link in a new window?

in this case the wrapper does not work cause the page that opents checks if it is opent in a frame or not
http://www.anwb.nl/azf/zoekresultaat.html?azfid=contact

so that way the whole page disapears and get replaced bij this one.

Greets Dimmy

In what file does this weblink get parsed?
I will edit that one to add a non trickt target function.
I realy need an option to open an outside site in a new frame.
and that this link is a menuitem

LOL even this board is using target="_blank"hehe so not realy strikt xhtml1.0 try the link on the right (or this one http://validator.w3.org/check/referer)

I hope that there wil be a good solution soon

It looks like all members are on holiday, its so quiet here

Greets Dimmy

Hi Dimmy,

We’re all here but working on TP3

This should not be very difficult to add. Do you have the an example showing how it shold be done in xhtml?

You would need to add javascript.
Look here:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world

maybe not that easy

Did this idea end up in TP3?

Sorry Dimmy it did not maye it into TP3.2 but it will in TP4

What I basically did to get around this is use a template variable. I created a URL TV and used a hyperlink widget for the display of my link. Then I just pasted the following code into the Attributes field for the hyperlink widget:



You could probably substitute the ’_blank’ for another template variable if needed. That way you can select what the target will be. There’s probably a bunch of different ways to do this...but this is the way I did it for my own TV since I have no need to select my target...they all open up in a new window on my site.

so how do you use this tv in a weblink that is a menuitem (create new weblink) ?

I had a crazy thought. What if we got rid of weblinks and made them nothing more than regular documents. That’s really all they are now anyway, they just have one field that get’s flagged as to whether it’s a "document" or a link (I think they’re called references or something).

We could have a default template that would be a Hyperlink or somethig like that. There are a lot of ways that we could get the redirect to work, meta-refresh, javascript, php header() via snippet or plugin. But I’m thinking that most of the time it wouldn’t matter. Ideally I think it would be best to have the menu figure out ahead of time whether or not it’s a hyperlink and just send you there directly instead of using a redirect, but since a lot of menus are third-party you’d have to have a backup redirect anyway.

Going with something like this would have a few advantages...
1. It shows the power and flexibility of templates and TVs and will hopefully get some people thinking outside the box as to what can be done
2. It would allow you to add TVs to a weblink (ie target)
3. It should simplify the core a bit by letting us handle all documents the same way
4. It would also make it much easier to do customizations like a return to site frame

What do you think? The idea probobly needs some refining but I think the concept of not hard-coding weblinks has merit.