[LINK] in fragment page

[Waggers]

I have a fragment page that contains a link to an external site and I'm trying to get the link to open in a new window.

I found these tips from the v7 forum, but neither seem to work on my v8 Business

Put
HTML Code:
target="_blank" after the url in the links tab.

For LINK launching a separate window, simply add target="new_window" at the end of the page name or url you are connecting the link onto, so if a URL it might look now like:

http://www.domaintolinkto.co.uk and change this to...

http://www.domaintolinkto.co.uk target="new_window"

I know I'm doing something stupid here but, for the life of me, I can't see what!

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Richard

[Waggers]

I think I've answered my own question.

<actinic:variable name="LINK" /target="new_window"> in the Fragment's text (in the Genral Tab) works.

Richard

[RuralWeb]

There is a bug in the fragment [LINK] it will be fixed on the next release.

[Artisan]

<actinic:variable name="LINK" /target="new_window"> in the Fragment's text (in the General Tab) works.

This didn't work for me, Actinic ignored target="new_window" and generated the following:

<tr>
<td align="center" width="25%">
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=0">
<img src="../logo-microsoft.gif" alt="Microsoft" border="0" height="24" width="129">
</a>
</td>
<td align="left" width="75%">
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=0" target="_self">Microsoft Support Knowledge Base</a>
</td>
</tr>

... note the target="_self" that's been inserted. I also tried

<actinic:variable name="LINK" /target="_blank">

without success.

I've searched around for the fragment link code to maybe change the target - any idea where it might be?

Malcolm

[RuralWeb]

place <actinic:variable name="LINK" /> into the fragment description (as you would [LINK] if it was working) and then enter the link details into the link tab as normal. Use the target="_blank" at the end of the url as normal.

[Artisan]

Thanks, Malcolm. That's exactly what I did in the first place, and it didn't work, which is why I ended up posting here. However, I stumbled across the solution accidentally, it worked when I left in the quote mark after ?adv=0 in the url:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=0" target="_blank"

These don't work:

"http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=0" target="_blank"
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=0 target="_blank"

How obscure is that?

Malcolm

[RuralWeb]

You need to leave a space between the end of the url and target="_blank" otherwise it will not work.

[Artisan]

Yep, there's definitely a space between ?adv=0" and target="_blank". Is that what you meant?

Malcolm

[RuralWeb]

Yes - strange that it does not work?

[RuralWeb]

I have just had a call from someone about a link not working and sure enough it does not - this is a link that has been working ok for years and has not been altered. When I checked several websites all the links are now not working that use the target_blank.

I wonder if there has been a change with ie

[wjcampbe]

Mal,

based on the Act2pdf download problem that suddenly materialised in IE, I would bet money there has been a change inIE.

[RuralWeb]

Great