I have added a "Web Link" to the Tools Module that appears on the opening My Institution page. It links to our school web site. Is there a way to have it open in a new window? There doesn't seem to be a "Open in New Window" option as there are with other modules. Currently when you click the link, it opens within the frameset and the url becomes https://sta.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_1_1. I tried sticking javascript in the url field and target=_new, but they both failed.
Any ideas or do I need to move this link to another module?
Richard,
It's a little tricky to get the right syntax, but on my system I can include a target setting to open in a new window by including quote marks on the interior part of the link, as if the whole thing would be automatically wrapped in quote marks on the outside, i.e.
http://www.gmail.com" target="_blank
to open a link to Gmail in a new window.
Does that help?
Mike
Wow. That works! Not sure why or how, but it's great. Thanks.
It works because the URL that you save really does get wrapped in an <a href="......."> tag to make the link, along with a lot of other stuff appended to it. There's actually a target="_self" tag that's automatically included, too--it's dumb that Blackboard doesn't give us an option to open in a new window since they're already specifying that target setting---but it seems to hit our target="_blank" tag first and use it instead. :-)