Are we still able to have links open in a new window?

Esther Pomeleo-Fowler

Opening a new browser window from within a page has been viewed as intrusive in the Internet community and that is why most sites have removed this feature from their pages. You can still insert the feature manually in the page. But you have to be very familiar with HTML or javascript.



Here is one example using Javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">

// Popup window code

function newPopup(url) {

popupWindow = window.open(

url,'popUpWindow','height=700,width=800,left=10,top=10,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes')

}

</script>

<a href="JavaScript&colon;newPopup('http://www.breastcancerride.org/site/PageServer');">Open a popup window</a>



Here is an example using HTML:

<a href="http://www.breastcancerride.org/site/PageServer" target="_blank">Go to Yahoo</a>



Both of this methods will require you to work with source code. But they also allow you to still use the popup window capability.