Open link in new window

tejas5899

Hi,
With rtf="t" in textarea item, we can select the text within and can add a link ( href ) to it. My question is how to open this linked page to new window?
Any suggessions? Please help.

Thanks,
Tejas

tvaughan

Tejas,

Just to make sure I understand you-- you're using a TextArea with rtf enabled and you are letting your DCT users link a portion of the text in the TextArea. And now you want to be able to have the link popup in a different window once you generate the saved DCR into an HTML file?

My first question, is: Do you only want a portion of the textarea to be the URL? Or is the entire textarea the URL?

Let's say that it only a portion of the textarea you want to be a URL.

In that case, within your TPL, you're going to need to parse through the data coming from the DCR and insert the appropriate javascript code into the HREF command.

I forget the exact syntax of the windowpen command in javascript, but your TPL would look something like this:

< iw_perl>
my $text = iwpt_dcr_value('dcr.Your.TextArea.Name');

if($text =~ /(.*)a href=(.*)\>(.*)\<\/a\>(.*)/) {
    $text = $1 . "a href='javascript&colon;window.open('$2')'>" . $3 . '< /a>' . $4;
}
< /iw_perl>

Or something like that. This will only transform the first href it finds in the textarea, so if you wanted multiple hrefs in a single text area, you'd have to do a lot better processing to make sure it worked.

Good luck,
Tom