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Bug 3213 - Feature request: open external links in a new window (user preference)


Summary:	Feature request: open external links in a new window (user preference)

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	User preferences (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Lowest enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Duplicates:	9811 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2005-08-20 20:24 UTC by Eran Roz
Modified:	2011-03-13 18:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

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Description Eran Roz 2005-08-20 20:24:01 UTC

Some people prefere that external links would open in a new window. so it would
be useful to be able to set this in user preferences.

Comment 1 Erik Moeller 2005-08-20 20:59:05 UTC

You can get this behavior by putting this in your User:username/monobook.js:

window.onload=replaceLinks;
function replaceLinks() {
  var x,i; 
  x=document.links; 
  for(i=0;i<x.length;++i) { 
    if(x[i].className=='external text') {
      x[i].target="_blank"; 
    } 
  }
}

(Be sure to clean your cache after changing your user script or it won't take
effect.)

Comment 2 Christian Thiele 2005-08-20 21:23:57 UTC

I hope this will not be included in MediaWiki because this is not html-compatible.

Comment 3 Fred Chess 2005-08-27 13:28:32 UTC

This feature was one I wanted when I first noticed wikipedia in early 2005. I
think it would be an enhancement.

Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2005-08-27 19:57:28 UTC

You can always open links in a new window from the browser, 
quite easily. There's no particular reason to discriminate 
automatically based on how the link was generated.

Comment 5 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2006-12-28 22:52:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1055 ***

Comment 6 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-05-06 17:15:38 UTC

*** Bug 9811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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