External resource in pop-up window?

External resource in pop-up window?

ved Lars Jensen -
Antal besvarelser: 4
Is it possible in moodle to make an extenal resource, like a "Web Link", appear in a separate window?

Thanks,
Lars.
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I svar til Lars Jensen

Re: External resource in pop-up window?

ved Zbigniew Fiedorowicz -
Offhand I didn't see any way to do this. However if it really is not supported, then it should be easy
to cook up some hack along the following lines: add some flag to the URL. The hacking code would watch
for this flag and then add the appropriate target attribute to that anchor.

Zig
I svar til Zbigniew Fiedorowicz

Re: External resource in pop-up window?

ved Kristina Schneider -

I'm relatively new to Moodle and so I haven't had a chance to snoop around
as much as I would like but I have solved this issue on a per link basis in
the HTML hard code. Basically, I coded the target for each link that I want
to set to a new browser as blank ie: <a href="http://www.google.ca"
target="_blank">. You either have to:

  • when using the rich text editor, edit the links in the source code
  • write everything up in HTML source in an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver
    - a good freeware one is http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
    (click on this link and you will see the target="_blank" in action!)

Note that in order to make the 2nd option easier, I disabled the Richtext HTML
editor and just plug code into my windows. I find I have more control over my
results this way.

Cheers,

Kristina

I svar til Zbigniew Fiedorowicz

Re: External resource in pop-up window?

ved Sean Keogh -
The way I've done this is to put web links in a small and otherwise plain-text page, it works well...like this:

http://www.oxilp.ac.uk/

Otherwise, if I want a url behind a piece of text, I code it in html, and tell moodle to use html formatting, as in the example by Kristina above.