Comments on: Add external link icon after all external links using jQuery

By: J Mehmett

J Mehmett — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:24:21 +0000

Yeah, Travis. WP’s tinyMCE editor still uses target="_blank" and it’s true that most of the bloggers and most of webmasters still use it.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:02:43 +0000

Hi J Mehmett,

That’s an excellent point I failed to mention since I’m always on XHTML 1.0 Transitional, instead of Strict W3 Compliance.

However most WordPress bloggers would still be using target="_blank" since there is no easy way to define an external link and there is no easy way to add a relative nor ID without going into HTML view of the post.

I should have mention all this in my post. Thanks again for pointing it out

By: J Mehmett

J Mehmett — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:27:04 +0000

Great post. However since target="_blank" is invalid XHTML, we can change this to something like rel="external", or id="external" then we can change our jQuery code like this: $("a[rel='external']").addClass("external_icon"); Or... $("#external").addClass("external_icon"); Both are the same. Thank you anyway!