Pop Up Window

[Flow]

Hi there,

I got a website. Designed it with Frontpage and all that but when I click on the links I am providing on the site it goes straight to the other guy's site. This, I want to end. I want a window or pop up window to open. I don't want my customers to leave my site.

Question: How do you make a link open in a separate window?

Thanks

[cdnvic]

Add "target=blank" (including the quotes) at the end of the link.

[Khun Jean]

I think that opening a seperate window is 'not done'. If you don't like people going to that lnk, remove the link.

As a user i can decide myself if i want to open a new browser or open it in a new tab.

A good way to study how HTML 'works' is to look at other sites with 'view source'.

Edited October 23, 2007 by Khun Jean

[cdnvic]

I just have my Firefox settings set to force new windows to open in a new tab.

[Flow]

Add "target=blank" (including the quotes) at the end of the link.

I tried and tried but it doesn't work. Anymore advice?

[george]

"target=_blank" (note the underscore!)

[Flow]

I think that opening a seperate window is 'not done'. If you don't like people going to that lnk, remove the link.

As a user i can decide myself if i want to open a new browser or open it in a new tab.

A good way to study how HTML 'works' is to look at other sites with 'view source'.

I want them to go to the link but I don't want them to leave my site. I want the link to open in a separate window. I don't know what "view source" is. My Frontpage and computer skills are extremely limited

[cdnvic]

Frontpage is a dead end as far as web creation goes. You may was to try Kompozer or even looking at a content management system like Joomla, or Wordpress.

Kompozer:

http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/

[Flow]

"target=_blank" (note the underscore!)

Tried that too. Unfortunately it doesn't work

[cdnvic]

George's correction was the correct code. Your link should look like this:

<a href="http://www.freebeerforyorky.com/drivinginthailand.html" target="_blank">

This is a working link from one of my sites.

[Crossy]

George's correction was the correct code. Your link should look like this:

<a href="http://www.freebeerforyorky.com/drivinginthailand.html" target="_blank">

This is a working link from one of my sites.

Actually only nearly correct, first double ear (") is in the wrong place in George's code It's

target="_blank"

not

"target=_blank"

Computers can be so fussy

[cdnvic]

It really shouldn't take four of us to get a working link.

[Flow]

I right clicked and then clicked on Hyperlink

The I typed in the address bar http://www.lasvegassands.com/target="_blank"

But aint working

I got Las Vegas Sands' logo on my site. When people click on it I want them to be taken to the site in a different separate window. I don't want them to leave my site.

Any more advice?

[cdnvic]

I right clicked and then clicked on Hyperlink
The I typed in the address bar http://www.yoururl.com/target="_blank"
But :( aint working
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You should have done this: http://www.yoururl.com/"target="_blank"

*I took the gambling related link out

[opalhort]

Here is a link from our site which opens in a new window:

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.victoria-adventure.org" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.victoria-adventure.org</strong></a></p>

This code was also created by Frontpage. Note the number of double quotes from the very beginning of the line.

When you insert a link on your site using Frontpage you have an option to select the behaviour of the link, one option is to have it open in a new window. You don't actually have to type the code in but you can do so in Frontpage by opening your page in html view, locate the link and add: target="_blank" at the end of the link.

opalhort