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Ernesto Baschny
Florian Seirer
Georg Nebel
Henrik Ziegenhain
Jigal van Hemert
Michael no-lastname-given
Robert Breithuber
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Simon Schaufelberger
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Bug #37710

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config.extTarget = _blank does nothing

Added by Robert Breithuber over 12 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

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Content Rendering

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Start date:

2012-06-03

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100%

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TYPO3 Version:

4.7

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Description

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

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Updated by Jigal van Hemert over 12 years 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.

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Updated by Florian Seirer over 12 years ago

Same problem here, and I use XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

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Updated by Robert Breithuber over 12 years 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">

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Updated by Florian Seirer over 12 years 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.

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Updated by Robert Breithuber over 12 years 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.

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Updated by Jigal van Hemert over 12 years ago

@Robert Lemke : 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.

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Updated by Robert Breithuber over 12 years ago

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

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Updated by Loek Hilgersom about 12 years 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.

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Updated by Paul A. Auwehla over 11 years 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.

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Updated by Henrik Ziegenhain over 11 years 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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Updated by Alexander Opitz over 11 years ago

Status changed from Needs Feedback to New
Target version deleted (~~4.7.2~~)

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Updated by Jigal van Hemert over 11 years ago

@Paula : it's not about creating square wheels. Most (if not all) (semi-)government site has to comply with accessibility guidelines. Part of these guidelines is that the (x)html passes validation with the w3c validators.

I believe we need to enable the target attribute in more doctypes:

doctypes with target attribute

- xhtml basic : http://www.w3.org/2007/07/xhtml-basic-ref.html#attr_target
- xhtml 1.0 transitional : http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dtd_a
- xhtml 2.0 : http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-hyperAttributes.html#adef_hyperAttributes_target
- xhtml 1.0 frames : http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-frameset.dtd_a
- html5 : http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element

doctypes without target attribute

- xhtml 1.0 strict
- xhtml 1.1
- xhtml+rdfa 1.0

I'll prepare a patch for the 6.x range (4.7 is in security fix only mode).

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