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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Adding New Attribute Values with attr()

Andrés Colonna
Andrés Colonna
1,925 Points
Posted by Andrés Colonna
Andrés Colonna
1,925 Points

how can I add the attribute to all the links?

I know how the method works, is just that I am not sure how to use it. can somebody please help me out.

js/app.js
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
  <title>Links Page</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Links</h1>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://google.com" class="external">Google</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://yahoo.com" class="external">Yahoo</a></li>
  </ul>
  <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
  <script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,073 Points
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,073 Points

You have to select all the links that actually have that class already. You could do that like this:

$("a.external").attr('target','_blank');

Sorry, I thought it was other code challenge

Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,073 Points
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,073 Points

Remember, you select all the anchor tags or "links" by using this selector:

$("a")

And if you need to select all the anchor tags who have the ".external" class you would do it like this:

$("a.external")
Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
21,689 Points
Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
21,689 Points

Hi,

You haven't added any code in your js snipet but what the challenge is asking you to do is a couple of things.

1 select all achor elements using jquery

$("a")

2 add the class of "external" to all of them.

$("a").addClass("external")

3 lastly add the attribute of target with a value of _blank

$("a").addClass("external").attr("target", "_blank")

This is what the finished code looks like.

I hope this helps.

Happy coding.