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Hello, I ve searched everywhere for this but I cannot find any solution. What I want is to make forum links to open in new tab. Meaning not just for me, but for everyone visiting my forums. By this I do not mean the post links, but the forums that I chose to be links in my website. I really need this because it is disturbing when visitors click a forum link and it opens in the same window.

Thanks

Are you meaning you want to force new tabs instead of new windows? IIRC, tabbed browsing is still a browser dependent feature. You can force a new window with target="_blank", but no such code exists to make a new tab. There are sometimes browser settings to open links set to open in a new window in a tab instead. But your own board's forums opening in a new window is not standard in phpBB; they should open in the same window. You may want to double check or rethink the edits done to those URLs.

What I meant was to open in new window. Or whatever your browser does. For example firefox openes new windows in new tabs. Internet explorer doesn't some times. So basically I meant to open in New window. Is t here any .php file I can edit? Or shall I add target="_blank" when puting a forum link? I ll try target="_blank" and let you know.

EDIT: Nop that doesnt work, ofc it wouldnt because it only accepts a link, not any coding.

So what shall I do?

OK, I am confused by this statement in your first post which sounds like you do NOT want new windows to open when a forum link is clicked.

xtcskull wrote:I really need this because it is disturbing when visitors click a forum link and it opens in a new window.

You want for the forums on your site to open a new window? Or do you want the link-type forums that go to external sites to open in a new window? Can you be more specific about exactly what you want?

Using target="_blank" depends on how your browser is set up. Firefox will automatically generate a new tab and some browsers will open a new browser window.

In most browsers, including Firefox, you can set it how you want in the setup.

Note: Right clicking the link gives you the option of a new browser or new tab.

darcie wrote:OK, I am confused by this statement in your first post which sounds like you do NOT want new windows to open when a forum link is clicked.

xtcskull wrote:I really need this because it is disturbing when visitors click a forum link and it opens in a new window.

You want for the forums on your site to open a new window? Or do you want the link-type forums that go to external sites to open in a new window? Can you be more specific about exactly what you want?

Sorry my mistake, I meant it is disturbing because it opens in same window*. Again, my mistake.
So basically I need link-type forums that go to external sites to open in new window. Thanks

OK. One solution for this was given recently here: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic ... 71&t=31522

Thank you so much, this is working! Thanks

Hi,

Where do I find: forumlist_body.html ???

I've searched thru all my forum files & can't find it.

With regards to this link: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic ... 71&t=31522 I can't ask my question in that forum cause they've locked it.

& can someone please post the coding: to open this sample link: [ url = http://www.php.com] http://www.php.com [/url] in another tab (without using right click) or window?

Yes I've deliberately created spaces in the url so that you can see the bbcode, what I want to know is what additional code do I add to get the required result?

As the other poster says target="_blank" doesn't work.

Thanx in advance.

TK

forumlist_body.html is in: /styles/yourstyle/template

The BBcode: won't open a new window/tab but there is a mod to do that.

Knlowledge Base - Links Opening New Windows

target="_blank" does work but it is HTML and doesn't conform to XHTML 1.0 Strict-validation rules anyway (you can use it in your HTML files it won't hurt anything)

BFW2009 wrote:

Mixstar wrote:won't open a new window/tab but there is a mod to do that.

Excluding the mod, can any registred member do it just by adding additional code to each individual post that he or she makes? If so what is the code?

To be even more specific what's the bbcode equivalent of target="_blank" ???

Thanx in advance,

TK

No, you will have to use the mod, it's not difficult.

In the meantime you could tell your users to use right click