Bug #37710

config.extTarget = _blank does nothing

Added by robert breithuber 12 months ago. Updated 1 day ago.

Status:Needs Feedback Start date:2012-06-03
Priority:Should have Due date:
Assignee:- % Done:

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Category:Content Rendering
Target version:4.7.2
TYPO3 Version:4.7 Complexity:
PHP Version:
Votes: 9 (View)

Description

Since 4.7 target="_blank" disappeared from all external links, config.extTarget = _blank has no effect at all.

History

#1
Updated by Jigal van Hemert 12 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Needs Feedback

Do you use XHTML Strict? XHTML Strict does not allow a target attribute in links. CSS styled content now follows those standards.

#2
Updated by Florian Seirer 11 months ago

Same problem here, and I use XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

#3
Updated by robert breithuber 11 months ago

Jigal van Hemert wrote:

Do you use XHTML Strict? XHTML Strict does not allow a target attribute in links. CSS styled content now follows those standards.

No.

config.doctype = xhtml_trans

Sourcecode shows:

<!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

#4
Updated by Florian Seirer 11 months ago

I reverted the changes back to css_styled_content 4.5.
\typo3\sysext\css_styled_content\static\setup.txt, starting line 68:

lib.parseFunc {
    makelinks = 1
    makelinks.http.keep = {$styles.content.links.keep}
#    makelinks.http.extTarget < lib.parseTarget
#    makelinks.http.extTarget =
#    makelinks.http.extTarget.override = {$styles.content.links.extTarget}
    makelinks.http.extTarget = {$styles.content.links.extTarget}
    makelinks.mailto.keep = path
    tags {
        link = TEXT
        link {
            current = 1
            typolink.parameter.data = parameters : allParams
#            typolink.extTarget < lib.parseTarget
#            typolink.extTarget =
#            typolink.extTarget.override = {$styles.content.links.extTarget}
            typolink.extTarget = {$styles.content.links.extTarget}

The line following the three # is from CSC 4.5.
That solved the problem, but I'm not sure if this was the right way to fix this.

#5
Updated by robert breithuber 11 months ago

You will have to use the default doctype (HTML 4.0), as XHTML does not allow link-targets at all, no matter if transitional or strict.
Thanks to Pascal Collins for pointing this out !

The Typo3 behavior is fully correct, following the standards - so this bug is invalid.

#6
Updated by Jigal van Hemert 11 months ago

@robert : See http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dtd_a the dtd for xhtml transitional specifies a target attribute for the anchor element.

#7
Updated by robert breithuber 11 months ago

@Jigal: oh, sorry, yes you are correct, target for anchors are indeed allowed for anchors in xhtml 1.0 transitional.

#8
Updated by Loek Hilgersom 8 months ago

It may be correct that no target is added for XHTML strict, but there is also no target added for XHTML-transitional.
What is worse, the RTE still adds a property title="Opens external link in new window", which is really inconsistent behaviour, suggesting that the target-thing still works.

#9
Updated by Paula Auwehla 2 months ago

In typo3 6.04 I can select RTE-links to open into _blank - target.
And I can give these targets a title.
And this is working, of course(!!) with XHTML.

Same in tt_news: Of course I can set external links and targets to _blank with the Link-Selector.
And of course this is working perfectly - in typo3 6.04 and XHTML.

If the w3.org decided to define and make links without target,
then they made simple total nonsense: Having targets in external links is
one of the most used features with links at all - and one of the most important features, too.

Please do not make squared wheels in typo3 even when the w3.org recommends this.
Leave the default targets-function as it is.

When in a very very very far future the browsers will not longer support this,
say when the paradies came to the internet - then it will be time to drop this feature.

Keep in mind: We are talking here about setting a default target.
Setting individual targets still works with typo3 and hopefully will work.

#10
Updated by Henrik Ziegenhain 1 day ago

Same here with 6.0.x

Inserting a link in the RTE without explicitly choosing a _blank target does not print the target in Frontend.
The tag only gets rendered when i choose a target in link wizard.

The descripted issue only is present, when config.doctype = html_trans is set.

Setting doctype to html5 solves the problems with the missing default extTarget. Since XHTML Trans is still supported, this issue should be solved somehow.

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