Question

My Twiki site users wanted me to change the default Interwiki link behavior so that a link will open in a new browser window. I thought I changed the appropriate line of code in the InterwikiPlugin.pm file.

It didn't seem to work though. I'm no perl expert but I didn't see (off the bat) where else to do this.

I changed line number 158 from:

$text = "$thePrefix<a href=\"$text\"$title>$theSite\:$theTopic</a>";

to:

$text = "$thePrefix<a href=\"$text\"$title target='_blank'>$theSite\:$theTopic</a>";

Was this the right approach?

Thank you,

BrianBeaudet

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-- BrianBeaudet - 01 Sep 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

No takers on this one.

-- BrianBeaudet - 08 Sep 2006

Yes Brian, this is the right approach.

You could suggest in the InterwikiPluginDev topic to add a flag to configure the plugin to open a new window or not.

-- PeterThoeny - 08 Sep 2006

Will do.

-- BrianBeaudet - 18 Sep 2006

I have it working. I combined your modification with a modification to Render.pm. On line 771 I changed:

$opt = ' target="_top"';

to

$opt = ' target="_blank"';

-- AndyFranklin - 19 Oct 2006