Author Topic: Automatic external links and rel="noopener"  (Read 3179 times)

Offline Hans

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Automatic external links and rel="noopener"
« on: May 14, 2017, 08:54:47 PM »
Hello,
unless my client doesn't want that "feature" I always place this code in my templates to force external links to open in a new tab.
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<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("a").filter(function () {
return this.hostname && this.hostname !== location.hostname;
}).addClass('external').attr("target", "_blank");
});
</script>

Now I have read that there might be safety issues and negative impact on quick rendering of a page.

To avoid those it's advisable to add
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rel="noopener" to the link.

I don't know however how to change the code so that
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rel="noopener" is part of the resulting link.

Hope someone can help me, I'm no coder.

Hans - Nijmegen - The Netherlands

Offline Ruud

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Re: Automatic external links and rel="noopener"
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2017, 10:37:08 PM »
The jQuery function attr() also allows objects/arrays to be processed.

You can change the part:
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.addClass('external').attr("target", "_blank");
into:
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.addClass('external').attr({
    target : "_blank" ,
    rel : "noopener"
});

Offline Hans

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Re: Automatic external links and rel="noopener"
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2017, 01:16:37 PM »
Great, thanks Ruud!
Hans - Nijmegen - The Netherlands

Offline Manuela

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Re: Automatic external links and rel="noopener"
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2017, 03:48:22 PM »
only a test...

 

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