opening website in separate window

[tomriehl]

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anyone know how to get the link "back to site homepage" on the guestbook to open in a separate window

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[Klemen]

Open gbook.php in a plain text editor and on line 987 change

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<a href="'.$settings['website_url'].'">

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<a href="'.$settings['website_url'].'" target="_blank">

[Henrie]

Unfortunately the code Klemen gave does not validate as valid xhtml.
In xhtml the target attribute is not allowed anymore.

Proper xhtml coding dictates that the user should have a choice if the link is opened in a new window or in the current window.
In modern browsers use shift+click to open a link in a new window, user ctrl+click to open in a new tab.

Code that validates is this:
Change line 989 (this is the line number i have in PSPad, not 987)

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<p style="text-align:center"><a href="'.$settings['website_url'].'">Back to '.$settings['website_title'].'</a>

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<p style="text-align:center"><a onclick="javascript:window.open(\''.$settings['website_url'].'\');">Back to '.$settings['website_title'].'</a>

A problem with this code is that the cursor does not change to a hand on mouseover. To fix this there are two solutions:
Solution 1 (which i would prefer, but unfortunately Firefox still does not show the hand cursor).

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<p style="text-align:center"><a onclick="javascript:window.open(\''.$settings['website_url'].'\');" style="cursor: hand;">Back to '.$settings['website_title'].'</a>

Solution 2 (which has as a setback that the current page is reloaded in the current window, but otherwise works perfectly and does show the hand cursor in all browsers)

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<p style="text-align:center"><a href="" onclick="javascript:window.open(\''.$settings['website_url'].'\');">Back to '.$settings['website_title'].'</a>

Greetings,
Henrie

[FruitBeard]

Hi there,

In reference to Henrie's solution 1 and the cursor not changing in Firefox browser.

<p style="text-align:center"><a onclick="javascript:window.open(\''.$settings['website_url'].'\');" style="cursor: hand;">Back to '.$settings['website_title'].'</a>

change style="cursor: hand;">

to

change style="cursor: pointer;">

this works in all browsers.

Fruity