Setting anchor target and Norton(?)

Pim Sohful · Aug 23, 2006

Hi,

I have a website full of external links. On the site I have a checkbox where
users can indicate that they want to have the link opened in a new window or
in the same window.

It is rather basic code:

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++)
{ base = anchors.href;
if(base.substr(4,3)=="://") // is it external link?
{ if(flag=="Y")
anchors.target="_blank";
else
anchors.target="_self";
}
}

Unfortunately one of my users is reporting that he gets links that do not
work. I strongly suspect that it is some security program that disables the
links when they are touched by my script.. However, I cannot reproduce the
environment of this man (Safari + Norton), as I don't have neither.

Does anyone know about this kind of problem and have a suggestion how to
solve this?

Thanks,

Pim

Paul · Aug 23, 2006

Pim said:
Hi,

I have a website full of external links. On the site I have a checkbox where
users can indicate that they want to have the link opened in a new window or
in the same window.

It is rather basic code:

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++)
{ base = anchors.href;
if(base.substr(4,3)=="://") // is it external link?
{ if(flag=="Y")
anchors.target="_blank";
else
anchors.target="_self";
}
}

Unfortunately one of my users is reporting that he gets links that do not
work. I strongly suspect that it is some security program that disables the
links when they are touched by my script.. However, I cannot reproduce the
environment of this man (Safari + Norton), as I don't have neither.

Does anyone know about this kind of problem and have a suggestion how to
solve this?

http://www.google.com/search?q=norton+javascript

Sam · Aug 23, 2006

Hi,

I have a website full of external links. On the site I have a checkbox where
users can indicate that they want to have the link opened in a new window or
in the same window.

It is rather basic code:

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++)
{ base = anchors.href;
if(base.substr(4,3)=="://") // is it external link?
{ if(flag=="Y")
anchors.target="_blank";
else
anchors.target="_self";
}
}

Unfortunately one of my users is reporting that he gets links that do not
work. I strongly suspect that it is some security program that disables the
links when they are touched by my script.. However, I cannot reproduce the
environment of this man (Safari + Norton), as I don't have neither.

Does anyone know about this kind of problem and have a suggestion how to
solve this?

Thanks,

Pim

There's quite a few pop-up blocker programs out there that can cause that. Many
web browsers also have built-in options that may restrict that so there may not
be much work around for that. Maybe using something between the <head></head>
tags such as

<base target="_blank">

Not sure how to make that dynamic with Javascript though.

Sam

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Setting anchor target and Norton(?)

Pim Sohful

Paul

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