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user514998
user514998

Reputation: 23

target="_blank" in a facebook profile-tab application (iframe)

i need links in a profile-tab app i'm writing open in new browser tabs. i set target="_blank" (with both hardcoded and with FBJS), but when i click on the links, the app page just reloads. i had a look at the html of the app as it's rendered by FB, and each of my links has an onclik event on it, that after creating a new image, returns false. i tried doing linkDomObjectHandle.purgeEventListeners('click'), but as i expected, that didn't do much. does anyone know of a way to get this to work?

edit: tested, and "right-click -> open in new tab" and middle-click both do what is expected. just the left click event gets hijacked.

edit: some code snippets:
i have a template that is cloned, filled and the clone is appended to an element. here is the html of the template: 

<div id="hover_window">
<a href="">
    <img src="">
    <div class="article_info">
        <div class="client_info"></div>
        <div class="media_info"></div>
    </div>
</a>
</div>

i fill the link by doing: 

    var hover_window = document.getElementById('hover_window').cloneNode(true);
hover_window.setClassName('active_hover_window');
hover_window.getFirstChild().setHref(targetLink.getHref());

i tried adding both target="_blank" to the html and .setTarget("_blank") to the FBJS, to no avail.

pls advise.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10286

Answers (1)

BigMomma
BigMomma

Reputation: 1

This works in my facebook profile tab-app 

<a href="http://foo.com/bar.php">Link targetting _blank for me</a>

Link test

Facebook edits this link and adds "target" depending on the href-url specified. If it is an internal facebook target, it targets the current frame, if it is and external url, it targets blank. Please just try the link above and see if it works for you (and remove all that javascript and stuff you have)

Upvotes: 0

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