Opening a Link in a new window from a dynamic navigation link

Question

I am working on a CMS site that uses dynamic navigation. There is one link on the site that I would like to be able to open in a new window. However, since this is a dynamic environment I can't add the standard, target="_blank" to the link.

Resorting to Javascript I tried the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.open ('http://www.foo.edu/education/global-health-courses', 'newwindow',   config='height=800, width=700')
 </script>

Unfortunately, this does not work properly. I could use a little Javascript magic to have this work properly.

Thanks.

Answer 1

How about your browser configuration? In my case it works, maybe you have some adblock/popup limitations?

You can also try with jQuery which supports more browsers than plain javascript (usually)...

$('a[href^="http://"]').attr("target", "_blank");

Answer 2

Simply use the proper window name and you should be fine:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
window.open ("http://www.foo.edu/", "_blank", "height=800, width=700");
</script>