Extension:LinkTarget

The LinkTarget extension allows admins to add a target attribute to internal and external links. That can be used to, for example, open internal and external links in new windows.

This extension was created for WikiWorks.

• Download and move the extracted LinkTarget folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:

  cdextensions/
  gitclonehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/LinkTarget
  

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'LinkTarget' );
  $wgLinkTargetParentClasses = ' /*ENTER SOME CLASSES HERE*/ ';
  

• Yes Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

[
 target => [ classes ],
 target => [ classes ],
 ... 
]

In LocalSettings.php:

$wgLinkTargetParentClasses = [ 'foo', 'bar' ];

Adds target="_blank" as an attribute to links that are children of an HTML element that belong to either class "foo" or "bar". To use in the wiki:

This is some text with an <span class="foo">[[Internal link]]</span> and also an <span class="bar">[https://www.mediawiki.org External link]</span>.

In that example, both links will open in new windows or tabs.

Using the same LocalSettings as in Example 1, in the wiki use:

<div class="bar">[[File:SomeImage|link=mediawiki.org]]</div>

$wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank';
$wgLinkTargetParentClasses = [ 'foo', 'bar' ];
$wgLinkTargetDefault = '_self';

In the wiki:

[[This link]] will open in a new window, but not <span class="foo">[[this one]]</span>.

Surround extension parser functions or tags with some code and open any links generated by those extensions in a new window. As an example, we will use the FlickrAPI extension, with the LocalSettings code from Example 1:

<div class="foo"><flickr>SOMEIMAGEID</flickr></div>

Actually, that extension helpfully already surrounds any code that it generates with a class so really it is sufficient to set LocalSettings as follows:

$wgLinkTargetParentClasses = [ 'flickrapi' ];

This will apply to all Flickr images generated by the extension. When users click on any image, the link will open in a new window or tab.

$wgLinkTargetParentClasses = [
 '_top' => [ 'foo' ],
 [ 'bar' ],
 '_parent' => 'baz'
];

Descendants of 'foo' will have target '_top', descendants of 'bar' will have target '_blank' and descendants of 'baz' will have target '_parent'.

• The links will not have any special target while viewing the page in "preview" mode.

• Manual:$wgExternalLinkTarget

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