Technical question

[jmc_bks]

How can I create jumplinks? Right now, any link I include will take you/me to the new site without opening a new window, but I'd like to change that. I searched the livejournal FAQ, but didn't find any reference, so I'm wondering if a) LJ supports that or b) it's so elementary that a computer moron should be able to figure it out without instruction. Any info will be appreciated.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is what you mean (only without the asterisks):

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] href*>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

I think this is what you mean (only without the asterisks):

<a href*="http://katerothwell.blogspot.com/*"target=_blank">Kate Rothwell*</a>

Nicole

[(Anonymous)]

Almost, Nicole. Everything is correct except for the punctuation around target.

target="_blank" is correct, not "target=_blank"

Thus (with <> brackets instead of parentheses)

(a href="http://katerothwell.blogspot.com target="_blank")Kate(/a)

Doug Hoffman

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Thank you both! I'll test these out this morning.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks Doug. I copied it out of my blog template and it does work with the wrong punctuation. But it's always nice to know the right way.

Nicole

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Maybe LiveJournal is funky...when I used Nicole's version, the jump link worked. For Doug's, a new window opened, but only with an error message. Dunno. I've saved both formats for future reference :)

And now I'm trying to figure out how to make the sidebar links jumplinks too, without much success. Neither formula works for those, probably because of the LJ template format that I'm using for the links.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. I see where I screwed up. I forgot to put in a closing quote after the URL. Damned unforgiving, HTML.

(a href="URL" target="_blank")link(/a)