target=”_blank” replacement
This is hardly a new concept, but i decided to finally get around to validating as much of my wordpress themes as i could. One major falling point i noticed was i used a lot of target=”_blank” anchor tags.
Bellow is the replacement code to create a XHTML valid “open in a new window” script.
Create a new external javascript file an add the bellow code
function RelLinks() {
if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return;
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i=0; i
var anchor = anchors[i];
if (anchor.getAttribute("href")
&& anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "blank")
anchor.target = "_blank";
}
}
window.onload = RelLinks;
Call the Javascript file somewhere within your tags
<script src="/external.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Replace all your target=”” attributes to a rel attribute
<a href="document.html" rel="blank">link</a>
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