target=”_blank” With XHTML 1.1

I received a question this morning from someone asking:

In XHTML 1.1 we cannot use attribute ‘target=blank’, so what is the solution?

The solution is to use regular links, but to make them open into a new window using JavaScript. To do this, we can add something to the links to flag them as being special, perhaps a class called new-window:

<a href="page.html" class="new-window">Page</a>

Then, use JavaScript to find all the links that have this class name and tell them to open in a new window:

window.onload = function() {
    var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
    for (var i=0;i < links.length;i++) {
        if (links[i].className == 'new-window') {
            links[i].onclick = function() {
                window.open(this.href);
                return false;
            };
        }
    }
};

or using jQuery:

$(function(){
    $('a.new-window').click(function(){
        window.open(this.href);
        return false;
    });
});

If you have any other questions like this, feel free to ask me and I’ll be happy to answer them here.

Add Favorite Link

<script type=”Text/Javascript”><!–
var url = “http://www.mysite.com”;
var title = “My Website”;
function addToFavorites() {
if (window.sidebar) {
window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url,”");
} else if (window.external) {
window.external.AddFavorite(url,title)
} else {
alert(“Sorry! Your browser doesn’t support this function.”);
}
}
if (!window.sidebar && !window.external) {
document.getElementById(‘bookmarkPage’).style.display = ‘none’;
}
// –></script>

Javascript: Print preview window

I would like to create a print preview window that will display only the main content of the page that a person would really want to print. It can work fine on IE and Firefox..You can test other browser.

Clicking a button in Javascript doesn’t always work in Firefox

Clicking a button in Javascript always work in IE but not in Firefox.

I’ve run into a javascript problem a few times which -for a refreshing change – shows itself as Firefox not behaving as you might expect (… well Firefox together with ASP.NET at any rate).

XPath

XPath uses path expressions to select nodes or node-sets in an XML document.
The node is selected by following a path or steps.