Plugin / jQuery.autoTarget for WordPress

Bill Knechtel

Description

Description

There is a little gotcha when you’re writing standards compliant code, but still want off-site links to open in new windows. XHTML 1.0 Strict deprecated the use of the “target” attribute. Early versions of HTML5 also had this deprecation, but have since brought it back. In either case, making sure the target attribute is set on every off-site link can be tedious.

Enter jQuery.autoTarget

Instead of going through the tedium of ensuring your target attributes are set, this jQuery plugin automatically scans all the links on a page, and sets the attribute for you (target=”_blank”) if the href attributes domain isn’t the same as the domain the page is served from. Just to sweeten the deal, it also sets any offsite link to have a class of “external-link”, so you can style offsite links in the manner of your choice. Easy-peasy. And it only weighs in at 272 bytes!

No-clobber

Just in case, the script does not touch any link that already has a target set, so if you’re already doing something with the target attribute, this won’t clobber your extant work.

Use of jQuery.autoTarget in Non-WordPress Sites

If you need it, my jQuery plugin sans wordpress plugin is available at https://github.com/wknechtel/jQuery.autoTarget

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Version

1.0.0

First Released

17 Dec, 2014

Total Downloads

430

Wordpress Version

3.0 or higher

Tested up to:

4.9.12

Require PHP Version:

-

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The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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