[BNM] Links, Iframes, RSS and target="_blank"

[Nick Taylor]

Yea - I struggled long and hard with that one. Javascript was refusing 
to play.


> Why not use a javascript solution? Find the links in the iframe and add a
> click event to them, then a window.open method for that event. You could
> always use target="_top" for the remaining links to get them to open in the
> parent window for non-javascript users.
> 
> I'm guessing the problem is more involved than that though, or else you
> wouldn't've asked...
> 
> On 7/3/07, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Not sure if you can do that to a raw xml feed... I've got around it in
>> any case by borrowing then adapting the xslt file that was mentioned at
>> the top of the feed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Not entirley sure about the scenario but seeing as there are iframes
>>> involved - how about a touch of <base target="_blank">
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/3/07, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello folks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've been asked to pull an rss feed into an iframe... the rss feed is
>>>> filled with embedded HTML to the extent that it's not really possible
>> to
>>>> do anything with it with XSLT... so it sits in it's raw form in an
>> iframe.
>>>>
>>>> So... the links etc are interpreted by the browser... and open in the
>>>> same window, which in an iframe, doesn't really work.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how I can get the links to open in a new window?
>>>>
>>>> This is the feed:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/BroadcastnowJobsRSS.aspx?JobCategory=161
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
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