[pmwiki-users] external links and overwriting default targets

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Mar 26 12:46:23 CDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:12:46PM +0100, Clemens Gruber wrote:
> In farmconfig a default blank target is defined
> 
>     # open external links in new window
>     $UrlLinkFmt = "<a class='external' href='\$LinkUrl' rel='nofollow'
> target='_blank'>\$LinkText</a>";
> 
> 
> Now I like to switch the target on some links, but this doesn't work:
> 
>     %target=_self% [[http://www.engadget.com]].
> 
> 
> There is still a "wrong" target specification in the html output:
> 
>     <a class="external" href="http://www.engadget.com" rel="nofollow"
> target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com</a>
> 
> 
> What can I do?

Not a whole lot, unfortunately.  Wikistyles aren't smart enough
to replace an existing target= value (coming from $UrlLinkFmt)
with a custom one.

Pm



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