news target window

I am trying to target my news in a new window. I select open in new window. I view the html source that shows target="_blank" but when i post the news article it does not save the target info. So basically it loads in the current window meaning my user has to click back to get back to the website. I have tried this numerous times and also tried posting and then updating the link afterwards in the edit a news post area. But nothing has worked.  Please help.

Where are you putting the target? In a link inside the tinymce editor window?

The editor strips out any html tags it is not configured to allow.

The target is one of the tags that is not allowed by default.

I don't know exactly where you would need to go to change that. I don't think anyone has asked for that yet.

I'll have to look into it.

im not real clear on what he is even trying to share here. if you are setting target=_blank, then its going exactly where you told it to, so i am not sure what you are trying to accomplish? are you wishing to stay on the current page? since you iterate that your user then has to use the back button, it would be my presumption that you are looking for target="_self", because target="_blank is going to load a new page every time you hit that link.

Regards,

DosDawg

Thats what he wants. A new window.

here is the link

http://doulas.com/m/news/view/Doulas-in-Action

I cannot get the news module to save the target. i have tried numerous times. click the you tube link and it will open in the same window.

the youtube link you posted here, opened up on youtube and took me away from here, and i had to actually use my browser to get me back here. when you say open up in the same window, what are you talking about, becuase those pregnant wimmen on youtube were on a different page than on the one i clicked that link on?

what flipping browser are you using/

Regards,

DosDawg

ok. if it strips it out then that would make sense. because it is not saving the target. on a news item, comment, etc with an outside link, i definitely would want it to open in a new window. let me know if u figure that out. sorry if I reported it as a bug, but it seemed like one initially :)

Actually, that might be a bug. I just tested it here on unity and it works.

Lets see if i can recreate it on my site.

hank,

please check these two links on this block i created for you. because i am like ab s0 forking loot lee lost on this one.

http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/index.php

block just under the members block.

haha. i am using google chrome. i wanted it to open in a new tab/browser window. not the same window. but for whatever reason it is not saving my target info.

you are correct. I am trying to create the first link. the one that opens in a separate window. the news module will not save the target info. that is my issue. i cant put in target=blank.

ok so i am going to try it in the "news module"?

Ok. I can't test that on my site. Links in the news don't take at all for me. So i have a problem with my own site i need to look into.

ok i have gone to the news module, as i dont see any difference between where you create a block, but for sheer sake of trying to figure out what is going on.

http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/m/news/index/

now again i ask which browser are you using? can you post your syntax here, so i can try the same syntax in my news module?

Regards,

DosDawg

Dos.

Post a actual news article from admin.

Not a block on the news page.

Well Dos. I see you actually got a link to work in there. I can't even do that. My site won't do it. So mine is broken.

But, opens in same window.

OK. its not me then. cause he is getting the same problem. didnt save the target=blank

http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/m/news/index/

i knew i wasnt crazy. even though its 1am over here.....

Yea, it's not working, but it still might be a setting somewhere. We need to confirm it's a real problem before it's reported as a bug.

http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/m/news/view/Creating-a-news-Article-and-using-_blank-in-the-source-code

ok i posted a news article. you can find it on the home page as well then click on the link to read the news article and if you click the link, it opens google _blank as best i can tell?

then i viewed the source, and the whole thing is rewritten from the way i actually wrote it:

this is what is showing up in source;

<div class="news-info">
                    <div class="news-caption">
                        <a class="news-caption" href="http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/m/news/view/Creating-a-news-Article-and-using-_blank-in-the-source-code">Creating a news Article and using _blank in the source code</a>

                            <span class="news-status">active</span>



                            <a href="http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/m/news/admin/Creating-a-news-Article-and-using-_blank-in-the-source-code">Edit</a>

                    </div>
                    <div class="news-date">09.01.2010</div>

                    <div class="news-text"><p>Ok here we go. boy that was something else there. never was it mentioned that we were creating a news article and the _blank wouldnt work or save when you update your html. so here it goes.</p>
<h5>Using the _blank as the target on an href</h5>
<p><br><a title="This is the _blank on an href" href="http://www.google.com">Go to Google using the _blank in the url from the html edit creating a news article</a><br><br> ok am i still lost here?</p></div>
                </div>

Then i edited the post and same thing it is stripping the target tag out

second round and on these i stripped teh class that is calling unity's css obviously.

Well, then it's obviously not working. _blank means new window. It opens it the same window, so it is a real bug then.

tried it in both the html editor and using the tinymce, both methods strip the target tag out, and actually reverse the string you provided so where we typically write <a href="someurl.com" sometitle="title">the link</a> the output is being published in reverse.

now hank, it was not insinuated that you were crazy, or even that this wasnt a bug, your post was very inconclusive on what you were even doing, nor was it clear what steps you were taking to verify the issue you were having. the best place to post something like this and ask for confirmation, is in the forums, not immediately in the thread for bugs. now that we have some idea of what you were trying to do, and more than one person has verified what you are stating is that the tinymce and the html editor strips out the target tag, and you are not able to declare a target.

Regards,
DosDawg

@deano and hank, yes this can be confirmed as a bug. tinymce and html editor strip the target tag from a post and does not allow declaration of a target.

Regards,

DosDawg

Well, i have to dig into my site. For some reason my site is stripping the entire link out. I can't even post a link in the news. Any how. I'll assemble some info and submit a ticket.

Might do it tomarrow unless someone else does it. I am tired. Boonex won't be there over the weekend anyway. It not like they will fix it overnight.

yeah i cant submit a ticket, so all i can do is help get it sorted by testing.

now what i am doing here because i see that the side box where our name is at does allow for the _blank target tag, now i am checking to see if the field area here where we are allowed to type will let you put an _blank tag or any other target tag.

Hank Couldnt use the _blank target tag in his href deano and dosdawg have both assisted in testing this issue

I tested the _blank links in the forum here. They work.

And your a premium member. You should be able to post to trac.

I had to logon using the logon link in trac before i could submit tickets.

Now that is annoying, this editor allows for the declaration of a target specifically the _blank so they have something stripping the target tags out of the posts in the entire site i do believe.

also hank PITA i know, but you can open the database and throw in your target i.e.

edited from the database --> http://terabyte-hosting.com/d7/m/news/view/Creating-a-news-Article-and-using-_blank-in-the-source-code

now when i view the source _blank is there.

<div class="news-date">09.01.2010</div>
                    <div class="news-text"><p>Ok here we go. boy that was something else there. never was it mentioned that we were creating a news article and the _blank wouldnt work or save when you update your html. so here it goes.</p>
<h5>Using the _blank as the target on an href</h5>
<p><br><a title="Using the Link Editor to request _blank as the target" href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Go to Google using the _blank in the url from the html edit creating a news article</a><br><br> ok am i still lost here?</p></div>
                </div>
                <div class="news-cb">&nbsp;</div>
            </div>

oh i can login, but then it tells me forbidden

LOL. I think mydatery was having problems also.

just thought about something else, would it be an option to have your news resolve on your site rather than posting a link that would take a member off the site?

wondering if you could just do a php include on the page you want to serve, by creating a new page and then adding a link in the news module to the new page that you created?

hmmmm, i might have to give that a shot, and see what that produces

Regards,

DosDawg

http://houstonlively.com/m/news/view/Cool-New-Window

HL,

i have to say that is rather jazzy.

so post how you done it, or send me the source, that is kewl. would be nice if you would only load the exact video eh?

Regards,

DosDawg

In this particular case, I'd just embed the youtube video in the news article.  Youtube videos are whitelisted, and can be embedded.  Why bother opening a new browser window?

http://houstonlively.com/m/news/view/Music-Video

I've been griping a long time about the fact that admins should be able to post whatever they damn well please on their own site, without their posts being filtered to death like a standard members post.  It makes no sense.  I know Boonex's intent is probably to make their script idiot proof, but there should be options to disable the safeguards for admins who are not idiots. 

I have test it here, and yes it opened in the same screen, so the _blanc is not working.
Browser Opera and Firefox

not touching your last parables.

you are correct HL, there should not be these limitations on the admin section of the site. that should be options for the admin to even control to the members and could even set controllers on a per membership level.

Regards,

DosDawg

houston,

Can you let me know how you did this. I can at least use this in the meantime.

thanks,

hank

All you have to do is open the html windoe in thr editor, and paste the youtube embed code.  Youtube embed code is allowed, and won't be stripped out when the news article is saved.

Strange... everytime I post to this thread I get an email nitification of a new post in this thread.  When others post to this thread, I get no email notification.  Very clever system! .... wish I had thought of it!

yeah i noticed that as well. wondered why i was getting notices of my own posts, but not getting notices of others posts. i wonder if we should report this in the unity thread? i did have a discussion about the search feature being missing, and was told it would be put back on next week (hopefully monday).

HL as you well know, the notification system is something they are working on, and at least they are making an attempt, because in 6, there was no notices at all.

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Regards,

DosDawg