Linking to other web pages

[Lesblancs]

Hello all,

This is driving me nuts. I know the solution will be simple, but I cannot find the answer anywhere.

The question is -

How do you ensure that your site remains underneath when someone clicks on link. Currently my site is replaced unless you use the 'back' arrow.

The site is on frontpage, if that makes any difference.

Thanks - Bobby

[la vache!]

I thought it was
<a TARGET=new HREF="http://www.xyz.com/"
so that a new window opened.

[Lesblancs]

Mmooo moo mmmooo mooo.

That is cow language for 'thank you very much'

Job done.

Dobby

[vrooje]

Yep!

Just to add to that, you can use TARGET=new if you want all links to open in their own window. You can also use some other name for the target, like TARGET=bobbylink, and then the first link will open in a new window (which the browser thinks is called "bobbylink") and then all other links will open in that window. That way, if the user clicks on 30 links, they won't be overloaded with windows -- but sometimes that is what you want, so it depends on the circumstances.

[Lesblancs]

Thanks Brooke,

I tried what you said, but nothing happened

Just explain again please, this time for Dobby.

Bobby

[Sue Dyer]

Bobby, when you do this in FrontPage and get the box up for weblink there is a tick box or similar to say "Open in New Window". Have a look at that. If you still struggle I'll do a screen shot for you. cheers.

[vrooje]

Bobby,

As Sue said, if you're in Frontpage there are undoubtedly options for you that I don't know about, so that you may not have to manually change the code at all.

If you do want to manually change the code, here's an example of a bit of code from your links page:

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<a target="new" href="http&#58;//www.brittanytourism.com/eng/preparez/golf/golf.cfm">

		Brittany Golf Courses</a></font></i></p>
		<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
		</td>
		<td style="border-style&#58; none; border-width&#58; medium;">
		<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
		<p align="center"><i><font face="Arial">
		<a target="new" href="http&#58;//www.blavet.co.uk/holiday%20activities.htm">Holiday 
		Activities Morbihan</a></font></i></p>
		<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>

		<p align="center"><i><font face="Arial"><a target="new" href="http&#58;//www.navix.fr">Le 
		Golfe du Morbihan</a></font></i></p>

I see by the 'target="new"' bits that you've already fixed the links to open in a new window. Is it your intention that if you were to click on every link there, they would all open in their own new windows, so that you'd have 8 new windows open if you clicked on all the links on the page?

When I click on the links, that's not what happens. The first link I click (Brittany Golf Courses) opens in a new window. But when I click the second link (Holiday Activities Morbihan), it changes the window I've just opened from Brittany Golf Courses to Holiday Activities Morbihan. And so on.

That's what I'm talking about -- you can have each link open in its own new window, or you can have all of them open in the same new window. Right now you're doing the latter.

If you want to do the former, go into the code and replace

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target="new"

with

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target=_new

That's old HTML standards but it will force a completely new window for every link.

But, if that's all still gibberish, don't worry about it, because it works fine right now.

[Sue Dyer]

In FrontPage get the hyperlink properties. (Right clicking does it) You'll then get a box (pic below) Click the "target frame" button and you have various options, play around with them to see what you like.