[Plone-UI] Re: Have portal_tab link to external URL and open it in new window

[J Cameron Cooper]

familyman wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm trying to do this:
> I want a portal_tab (already set up in portal_actions, no problems there) to
> link to an external URL (no problem with string:http://www.website.dom)
> which works okay. Now I want to open the linked-to website in a new browser
> window. Can this be done in the portal_actions as well? Perhaps with an
> extended string command?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for any comments/help. I've searched the forums but nobody seemed to
> have come up with anything...

No; that requires a different attribute, and one that actions do not 
generate. You could attach it with Javascript, since those links have 
nice ids on them. (I suppose there's the javascript: URL type, but 
that's ugly.)

I do hate it when websites do that to me, though.

               --jcc

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