This default method causes your posted link to open in the current browser window, forcing the reader to either manually open the link in a new browser window, or otherwise, click the browser's "back" arrow button to return to the RV.NET forums.
However, by adding a small line of text to your link's code, your posted link will now automatically open into a new browser window. You just need to add, or simply "copy and paste" the following text line into your link code:
"target=_blank"
directly after the web address(shown in red). Your link code will go from this:
Note that "target="_blank" or "target=_blank will also work.
There are two ways to add this text code. The first is by adding the code in the "Link" popup window as follows:
The second way is by adding the text code directly in the "Message" window:
An excellent tutorial, Bob. I have added a link to it in the FAQ sticky for FTS.
Given that this procedure is already described in another tutorial in the FAQs, I would imagine that most links will not take advantage of this. (However, your explanation is a better demonstration, so perhaps...)
When I want a new window, I hold down the shift-key when I click on the link.
Tom
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As noted above, you can hold "Shift" when you click a link to open in a new window. You can also hold "Ctrl" when you click to open in a new tab in the same window (if you're using IE7).
and if anyone is using IE 7 or above, you can hold down while clicking and that will open the link as a new tab. Very handy. I use this alot on rv.net to open all links I want to read. The cool thing about this is that you can scan a list of articles, say, in the active search and the tabs will keep opening as new tabs in the background. You can then go to each one of them.
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I normally open links in a new tabbed window, by using the right-click method. But I think swebber is right! Adding this text code would make it easier for readers of the forums which may not be as browser savvy. Those who already use the "right-click+", "shift+click," etc. to open links will continue to do so, and adding this bit of text code will not effect them.
I actually posted this short tutorial at the request of several forum members who were having difficulty posting clickable links in the Class A forums. I thought I'd also add a way to make clickable links open a new browser window, for the benefit of those who may not have known that such a method existed.
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