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So, I have an elaborate custom field set, with several of the custom fields containing info about URLs. The client will be able to enter links to URLs on our site, or to external URLs (off site). This is the code that takes one of the URL fields and displays a link around an image using the date supplied in the custom field:

<a href="http://{promo_3_link}">{promo_3_image}</a>

If the value of “promo_3_link” is a local URL, like:
/home/mytemplate

then I don’t want to do anything else with that link. But, if the value of “promo_3_link” starts with “http” I want to dynamically add code to it that would make that link open in an external window. How do I do this?

Thanks.

You could give that link rel=“external” and then use JavaScript (or jQuery) to open all links with a rel of “external” in a new window.  This would save you the headache of trying to evaluate the URL in EE, and is also a fairly common way of managing links that open in new windows.

I use javascript for stuff like this,

the code below basically checks links to see if they are pointing to an external domain, and if so it adds target blank to them

jQuery("a[href^='http:']").not("[href*='yourdomain.com']").attr('target','_blank');

you’d want to change “yourdomain.com” 😊

I think I have this figured out; thanks to all who offered help.