make Links open in new window

If you don’t care about valid XHTML, you can simply add target=”blank” into the href. (Not sure now, don’t use it any more, but it may actually be like this: target=”_blank”).

Or if you don’t care whether those with js disbled get the new window, you can use this: onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;”

Other than that, I don’t know any further ways to do that. The js solution validates, but as I said, will cause problems for those who’ve disabled js.

Read this:
https://www.alistapart.com/articles/popuplinks/

In the WP control panel under Links each link offers the option to open in a new “_blank” window. Just set it for each link in there.

Yeah, but that’s a non-validating solution as well. And I never was able to note that that worked for me when I was testing it (may have something to do with using a tabbrowser extension in FF though, not sure….)

That article from A List Apart presents a nice solution that validates.

Yep, that’s true. But so does the “onclick” solution, but they both are still problematic for people who don’t have js enabled. I don’t know that that’s a huge proportion of the surfing public, but I don’t know that it’s not either.

If you are really concerned with XHTML validation just change the doctype to transitional vs strict.

I just tested it on my blog and for whatever reason it is not creating a validation warning for my page, though it should be, as there is a target=”_blank” on one of the links.

It does open in a new firefox tab for me though.

Just for the record, I too think that you should let the users decide where they want to open the links instead of forcing the new tab/window.

Yeah, target is an acceptable attribute in a transitional DOCTYPE. If you want pop-up windows, good luck getting it to work with a strict DOCTYPE and still be accessible.