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

Posted by imad mohahammad
imad mohahammad
1,662 Points

how can i solve it

Using jQuery only, add to all links with the class "external", the target attribute with the value of "_blank".

???

1 Answer

Jacek Szemplinski
Jacek Szemplinski
6,423 Points

Hi,

The answer is:

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

Basically how this code works is it selects all elements with class "external" and sets their "target" attribute to "_blank". If you want to, you can read more about attr() in JQuery documentation.

Jacek

Jeremy Canela
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Jeremy Canela
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 30,766 Points

imad mohahammad remember that .attr() is a getter and a setter as Andrew says.

var getter = $(".external").attr("target");
// The variable 'getter' would be the 'target' value

var setter = $(".external").attr("target", "_blank");
// The variable 'setter' would be setting the target's value to _blank