Links to Documents - Where They Open Up at

[Jason76]

On my drum lesson site, the links to pdf files open in the same window. However, people might prefer a different window. What do you think most people want? What do you like? How can bbCode be manipulated to make the pdf files open in a different window?

 

[Page]

I rather have all links that are posted to open on another windows tab rather then making the page to reload. 90% of the time I go back to the topic anyway if it does make the page to reload to the link that you have clicked on.

 

[Elli]

If your BBCode editor supports HTML attributes, then all you need to add to your .pdf link is the `target="_blank"` attribute. Like so:

[a href="#" target="_blank"]Link text[/a]

If not, you could write a script that appends this attribute to all links that end in .pdf:

jQuery:

$('a[href$=".pdf"]').attr('target', '_blank');

Vanilla:

let link = document.querySelector('a[href$=".pdf"]');
link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');

However, you might consider the points made about opening links in a new tab from this CSS Tricks article:

https://css-tricks.com/use-target_blank/

 

[Jason76]

I mean XenForo software.

https://xenforo.com/community/help/bb-codes/

If your BBCode editor supports HTML attributes, then all you need to add to your .pdf link is the `target="_blank"` attribute. Like so:

[a href="#" target="_blank"]Link text[/a]

If not, you could write a script that appends this attribute to all links that end in .pdf:

jQuery:

$('a[href$=".pdf"]').attr('target', '_blank');

Vanilla:

let link = document.querySelector('a[href$=".pdf"]');
link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');

However, you might consider the points made about opening links in a new tab from this CSS Tricks article:

https://css-tricks.com/use-target_blank/

I will try that.