Weblinks. Target and CSS Class

I have the same requirement as was discussed here http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,503.msg6481.html#msg6481 but only got half of what I needed from the final solution.

I’ve combed the forums for a better solution that what is outline here.

I have a sidebar menu generating from a DropMenu snippet call and in that menu I have both ordinary documents and some external links. For the external links I need:

1) to launch in a new window and,

2) to have an "external" CSS class applied so I can hook-up an icon to the items signaling that they are off-site.

The hack provided here will get me halfway there (though it take a long time to launch the external link as it is), but what can I do about getting class code injected in the generated DropMenu link?

What I’d love is a PlugIn / OnWebPagePrerender event parser which just automatically magically identified any/all external links an added a specified CSS class to them. . . but that’s crazy talk. I don’t have time to build such a thing.

Here is the site I need this for:

http://www.fn-group.com/clients/diopa/modx/index.php?id=88

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Loren Johnson

I had success in modifying the DropMenu to allow weblinks, and you can also add a class atttribute... I just retested it and it works fine for me. The code (dropmenu_weblinkNW626_1156pmest.txt) is attached to the 5th post in this thread:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,5341.0.html

Create a snippet with the provided code, then in the manager while editing or creating a weblink, put the target and class in the longtitle field like so:

target="_blank" class="weblink"

(change class name to whatever you like) and here is an example of the class I use for weblinks:

breezer,

Thanks! this was exactly what I was needing and it worked like a charm.

Cheers,

Loren