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I want random links in this code to open in a new window. how to please ?

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<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// Create arrays to contain all the values 
// for links and image locations
link = new Array
image = new Array
 
link[1]="http://www.wildexpo.com.au/Aust%20Rep%20Show/"
image[1]="http://www.reptilesaustralia.com.au/forums/Ads/wildexpo.gif"
 
link[2]="http://www.excite.com"
image[2]="http://www.excite.com/mesp/images/excite/new_logo-180.gif"
 
link[3]="http://www.lycos.com"
image[3]="http://a284.g.akamai.net/7/284/987/000/lygo.com/ly/i/lyguide.gif"
 
link[4]="http://www.cnet.com"
image[4]="http://cnet.com/Images/Headers/cnet-1-title.gif"
 
link[5]="http://www.webcrawler.com"
image[5]="http://webcrawler.com/img/web/hdr/home_header.gif"
 
 
// Create a random number between 1 and five
random_num = (Math.round((Math.random()*4)+1))
 
 
// Write a link and images with random array
document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\">");
document.write("<img src=\"" + image[random_num] + "\" border=\"0\"></a>");
 
-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// Create arrays to contain all the values 
// for links and image locations
link = new Array
image = new Array

link[1]="http://www.wildexpo.com.au/Aust%20Rep%20Show/"
image[1]="http://www.reptilesaustralia.com.au/forums/Ads/wildexpo.gif"

link[2]="http://www.excite.com"
image[2]="http://www.excite.com/mesp/images/excite/new_logo-180.gif"

link[3]="http://www.lycos.com"
image[3]="http://a284.g.akamai.net/7/284/987/000/lygo.com/ly/i/lyguide.gif"

link[4]="http://www.cnet.com"
image[4]="http://cnet.com/Images/Headers/cnet-1-title.gif"

link[5]="http://www.webcrawler.com"
image[5]="http://webcrawler.com/img/web/hdr/home_header.gif"


// Create a random number between 1 and five
random_num = (Math.round((Math.random()*4)+1))


// Write a link and images with random array
document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\">");
document.write("<img src=\"" + image[random_num] + "\" border=\"0\"></a>");

-->
</script>

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Re: new window? target="_blank" ?

target = "_blank" should work.

change:

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document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\">");
document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\">");

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document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\" target=\"_blank\">");
document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\" target=\"_blank\">");

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Re: new window? target="_blank" ?

Thanks Again Matt!

Resolved!

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Re: new window? target="_blank" ?

Not Quite Resolved!

Whats wrong with back slash? The code works in testbed but wont cop the backslash on my board (ipb) ?

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document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\" target=\"_blank\">");
 
document.write("<img src=\"" + image[random_num] + "\" border=\"0\"></a>");
document.write("<a href=\"" + link[random_num] + "\" target=\"_blank\">");

document.write("<img src=\"" + image[random_num] + "\" border=\"0\"></a>");

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Re: new window? target="_blank" ?

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by Inny ...

Not Quite Resolved! Whats wrong with back slash? The code works in testbed but wont cop the backslash on my board (ipb) ?

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Hmm... perhaps your board software is looking for escaped characters and eating them.. o_O

try either:

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document.write("<a href=\\"" + link[random_num] + "\\" target=\\"_blank\\">");
document.write("<img src=\\"" + image[random_num] + "\\" border=\\"0\\"></a>");

(double backslash should be escaped to backslash by your board software which can then go on to be the javascript escape character when the page is rendered)

or (my prefered way):

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document.write('<a href="' + link[random_num] + '" target="_blank">');
document.write('<img src="' + image[random_num] + '" border="0"></a>');

(all literal strings in the Javascript are quoted with single quote characters, and attributes in the dynamically created elements are quoted with double quote characters :- escaping doesn't matter)

Last edited by MattEvans; Feb 14th, 2007 at 2:53 pm.

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Re: new window? target="_blank" ?

Matt to the resue!

Once again Thankyou mate!

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