Re: Change href of external links

by Paul McLanahan :: Rate this Message:

Actually, you have to check for href attribs that start with "http"
but then make sure that they're not "http://yourdomain.com" because IE
will translate relative links into absolute ones in the returned
string from aTagRef.href. I'd also make sure that they don't start
with "javascript:" and "mailto:".

On 11/28/06, Sam Collett <sam.collett@...> wrote:

> On 28/11/06, agent2026 <adamd@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > New to jQuery, and I'm trying to use it to set my external links to open a
> > new window without using any attributes to mark the external links. I can
> > do this with regular js, using a.href.match, but I can't get it to work with
> > jQuery. Tried various directions, but no go.
> >
> > Sure I'll feel pretty stupid when this is answered, but here is my ugly,
> > non-functioning code:
> >
> > $(function(){
> > if ($!("a").href.match("http://www.internal.com")) {
> > $("a").click(
> > function() {
> > window.open(this.href); return false;
> > console.log("external");
> > };
> > );
> > };
> > });
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Adam
> > --
>
> This may work (untested), grabs all anchors that don't begin with http
> (internal links should be referred to using '../../foo.html' or
> '/bar.jpg'):
>
> $("a").not("[@href^=http]").click(
> function(){
> window.open(this.href);
> console.log('external');
> return false;
> }
> )
>
> $("a:not[@href^=http]") may also work.
>
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