Image Widget
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Hi there!
When I click the image (it has an attached URL) on right side bar inserted there as an image widget it does not open the attatched link in a new tab. How to make it open in a new tab?
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Hi,
Whether it opens in a new tab or a new window would depend upon your browser settings. Changing your browser settings would have no effect upon the behavior of the image widget on a visitor’s device/browser setup.
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Thank you MusicDoc, but no… it does not work!
I have checked my tab opions for both Mozilla and Opera, and they are set to open a link in a new tab! but they still open my widget picture in the same tab.
There must be something else, maybe to see the properties of the widget picture in a box with the option “Open the link in a new tab” … but this dialog does not appear when I take the process to insert in my blog the widget picture.
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I have checked my tab opions for both Mozilla and Opera, and they are set to open a link in a new tab!
I understand. And I’ve been recently wondering why the Firefox setting at Tools > Options
Open new windows in new tab instead
gives the same results regardless of whether it is checked or not. And the result is that when I click on a link (including an image link to a media file or attachment page) the page I am on switches to the link URL page, instead of either opening a new window or opening a new link as I would expect.
However, these results are independent of WordPress.com. The tabs issue I’ve jut described is the same regardless of where I am on the web.
There must be something else, maybe to see the properties of the widget picture in a box with the option “Open the link in a new tab” …
Although you might be onto something that I’m missing, I don’t think this is a WordPress.com issue.
Please feel free to add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention.
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Correction. I mean to say:
And the result is that when I click on a link (including an image link to a media file or attachment page) the page I am on switches to the link URL page, whether that option is checked or not, instead of either opening the page in new window or opening the page in a new tab depending upon the setting, as I would expect.
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In other words, depending upon the setting I choose at FF Tools > Options > “Open new windows in new tab instead,” I’d like the link to either open in a new window or open in a new tab, leaving the present window or tab open. But it doesn’t behave this way. Instead it simply switches the present URL to the link URL, regardless of the setting.
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Correction:
I now find that clicking on a link sometimes opens the link URL in a new window or new tab, depending upon my browser setting at Tools Options. However, most of the time it doesn’t. I have no idea why it only works sometimes. For example, it works properly with links on a WordPress.com theme guide, but fails to work with links on a WordPress.com support document page.
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Is your image simply a link to a different web page that you want to open in the new window? If so you want your link to that web page to indicate target=” blank” to open a new tab.
And the easiest way to compose it is to use a draft post and insert the image and its link and its “open in new page setting” (if in visual mode) or add the target=”blank” to the link if in text mode.
IF you just want the image to open in a new page in a larger size, that’s a different situstiin.
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Oops of course I forgot to use the “code” button. Your code uses the target=”blank” like this:
<a href="http://Wordpress.com/" target="blank"><img src="myimagefile.jpg"></a> -
@ yourcrony,
My first question to you should have been the following: Are you referring to a WordPress.com website, and if so which one? You’re forum profile identifies no primary website.
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