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Excerpt: Alter the behavior of external links in Movable Type. Read the whole article…

Ingve
January 10, 2003 12:05 PM

Fortunately, mozilla can be configured to ignore that annoying "open in new window" silliness... :-) (See http://gammatron.novarese.net/2002/10/17.html#a2032246)

Adam Rice
January 10, 2003 1:31 PM

There's a more canonical way to do this in CSS. Check out: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/generate.html#before-after-content Note: I haven't actually played with this myself, and it's possible that some browsers will ignore it.

Adam Kalsey
January 10, 2003 1:35 PM

Worse than ignoring it, some browsers really muck it up. IE 6 appears to put the "after content" inside the block instead of after the block. Basically, whatever's in the after content sits on top of what it's supposed to be after.

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February 2, 2003 8:23 PM

external links in new windows write up

Excerpt: External Links in new windows :: Kalsey Consulting Group I must get down to doing this.

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February 3, 2003 9:10 PM

external links

Excerpt: Thanks to eska, I was reminded that I wanted to implement the External Links differentiation on my site. That was

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February 6, 2003 1:50 AM

testing external links

Excerpt: External Links in new windows :: Kalsey Consulting Group

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March 8, 2003 11:14 AM

Testing External Links Plugin

Excerpt: I wanted to add the External Links icon to my site awhile ago, but I just got around to it today. Thanks to Kristine for leading me to the geeky instructions....

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April 14, 2003 12:58 PM

Avoiding Duplicate Comments

Excerpt: Avoiding Duplicate Comments You have to be running Movable Type on a SQL database in order for this to work. and another thing... External Links in new windows I get so tired of having to add the target="blank" attribute to the links that point away fr...

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April 18, 2003 3:18 PM

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Excerpt: I've been using the External Links to differentiate between offsite links, but I'd had at least one person say

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June 17, 2003 8:05 PM

External Links

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August 30, 2003 11:23 AM

aug.30.03

Excerpt: Arrrgghh! lol I have no updates. I'm that big of a loser. I've been mucking with a whole bunch of stuff for Movable Type. Especially stuff like Opening External Links in new windows [1 & 2]. Unfortunately, no matter what...

Chris
September 7, 2003 2:07 AM

Thanks adam! This is a good solution. Just a tip to all reading this you need the regex plugin and the macro one by the look of it. regex : http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mtregex.php#000884 Looking for an icon? Send me a ping and you can use this one: http://blog.iloaf.com/archives/000107.html

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September 7, 2003 2:11 AM

External links open new windows

Excerpt: Just installed the regex and macro plugins and a macro from Adam to open links in new windows. Wanna know how? Want an Icon? read on......

Adam Kalsey
September 7, 2003 8:34 PM

All you need is Macros, the regex plugin isn't needed.

Christian
October 28, 2003 10:08 PM

Hello, I just installed MTMacro. I'm still having a difficult time trying to understand how this plugin works. I have the AXS visitor tracker on in my blog. I want to track "outside" links, and it requires me to prepend "http://mydomainname.com/axs/ax.pl?" before each link in the href attribute. ie. If I wanted to track who clicks a link to nytimes.com, I'd have href="http://mydomainname.com/axs/ax.pl?http://nytimes.com" target=_blank" I want to use this plugin to automatically prepend this to each link outside of my site because handtyping it in is such a pain. But I don't want to it to prepend to any internal links since they're all tracked anyway. And also add the target="_blank" attribute to the external links as well. Any help with be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

girlie
November 3, 2003 4:16 PM

Hmmm. So why would a space appear instead of the icon in some links? For example, the link you included to Web Graphics has a blank space where the icon should be. I have a similar situation with a link on my site. At first I thought it was the hyphen in the domain name (because your link and mine both have one), but I tested by removing the hyphen and still had the same problem.

Ben
February 11, 2007 10:43 AM

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