[Mediawiki-l] wiki Markup to open a link in a new window

[Rob Church]

MediaWiki outputs XHTML markup for the browser. Under the new XHTML
specifications, opening a link in a new window isn't technically
possible, as the 'target' attribute (used to achieve this effect) is
no longer valid for the 'a' tag, i.e. the functionality is not valid
XHTML.

If you are permitting HTML (and are aware of the risks of this) then
the old HTML to do this would be:

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki" target="_blank">Go to Wikipedia</a>

Hope this is illuminating,


Rob Church

On 17/10/05, Peter Evans <email2pje at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> How to I open a link in a new window using wikimedia markup?
>
> Can I use the HTML to do this and place <nowiki> and </nowiki> around it
> to stop the wiki translation
>
> Regards,
> Peter Evans
>
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