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

Posted by Rajasekhar Reddy Nalla
Rajasekhar Reddy Nalla
7,894 Points

How to solve this challenge: Using jQuery only, add to all links with the class "external", the target attribute with t

How to solve this challenge: Using jQuery only, add to all links with the class "external", the target attribute with the value of "_blank".

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>

1 Answer

Chyno Deluxe
Chyno Deluxe
16,936 Points

You can target all links using the class external like this.

$("a.external")

and you can target attributes using the attr() method. 

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