I have a web link that I want to automatically open up in a new browser window when it is clicked by anybody, is there anything that could be done?

This can certainly be done. Can't remember off the top, but I believe you have to specify new in addition to other attributes in the Javascrip function or so that is associated with the link. Just Google for it.

Yeah you can do that with javascript. just add an onClick attribute to your anchor tag and call a function which would be defined in the header of your page. So lemme just give an example off the top of my head,

<a href="" onclick="open()" > </a>

so in your head tags you should have something like this:

<script>
   function open(){
     window.open(http://www.google.co.uk);
   }
</script>

That should do your magic. Now if you have other links that would do that same, you can make you method very useful. You just need a slight change. this time you just make the function receive an argument which would be the link that would be opened. Would leave you to figure it out.


NB: This topic should be in the webmasters zone so it would be moved in less than 24hrs

In ur <A> html link, set the TARGET attribute's value to PARENT i.e <A href="xxxxxx.html" target = "parent">mylink</A>
Pls let me know if it solved it.

The right way to make a URL or web link open in a new window is by setting the target attribute to "_blank". See an example below:

<a href="http://cnn.com" target="_blank">Visit CNN Breaking News</a>

Hope this help!

Thanks to everyone, but I am not programmer and all the code you have suggested has gone well over my head!

It maybe that I have not made my question clear enough or that , you are making assumptions that I understand programming, and have missed out explaining all the steps.

All I want is to know how I can make the following link open up in new browser window?
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/11/24/AS241182017/?s=nigeria&st=2&pn=95

I tried below but it boviosly did not work, what am I doing wrong?

[a href="http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/11/24/AS241182017/?s=nigeria&st=2&pn=95" target="_blank"]Visit CNN Breaking News[/a]

@GenBuhari,

Setting the target to _blank will definitely fixed the problem. The tag to use is "<" not "[". See my example below again.

<a href="http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/11/24/AS241182017/?s=nigeria&st=2&pn=95" Target="_blank">ITN SOURCE Nigeria</a>

This will definitely fixed the problem. I just tested it now and it worked.

<a href=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/11/24/AS241182017/?s=nigeria&st=2&pn=95  Target=_blank>ITN SOURCE Nigeria</a>

what am i doing wrong?

Correct version (note the double quotes):
<a href="http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1982/11/24/AS241182017/?s=nigeria&st=2&pn=95" Target="_blank">ITN SOURCE Nigeria</a>

+2

But when I post the link on the thread as you suggested and then click on it, it does not open in a new browser window.

GenBuhari:

But when I post the link on the thread as you suggested and then click on it, it does not open in a new browser window.

You can't post the link on this forum and get it to work. This forum post field uses bbcode editor which do not allow HTML tags to work because of security issues.

I guess you need to study HTML a little bit to understand this. We can give you all the advice we can  and if you don't know how to implement it, we will be wasting your time and our time.

Visit the link below to learn HTML basics. It won't take you 2hours to get going.
http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp

ok
so is there any way to get it happen on this forum?

Alternatively,can someone show me how to embed streaming videos on this forum (other than youtube video, which i kow about

get the code from the video host or create your own iframe

would it be easy for a non-programmer like myself to do?

would it allow me to embed videos on this forum?

or can the videos be easily converted to youtube format for embedding?

And why do you want to embed vids on this forum? Why don't you just drop a link to your video wherever it is? I don't think you would be able to embed anyway

ok.
thanks for helping

GenBuhari, I don't really know what you want anymore.

Your problem has been solved but if you still need more help, visit http://www.htmldog.com to sort out your problem.

Just trying <a href="http://patrickokunima..com"Target="_blank"> Click</>

target="_blank" opens in a new TAB not window.

Still testing http://patrickokunima..com

Fayimora:

target="_blank" opens in a new TAB not window.

That's probably because your web browser has been set to open these up in new tabs instead of new windows.