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

Posted by Thomas Broady
Thomas Broady
5,734 Points

I can't see why this doesn't work?

I can't see why this doesn't work to add _blank as the value for the target attribute?

js/app.js 
$(".exteral").attr("target", "_blank");
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

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You have a typo in the code. You have misspelled external as exteral. If you simply fix the typo like this:

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

Then your code will work.

Thomas Broady
Thomas Broady
5,734 Points

Ahh, thanks! One of those moments where you just go blind at your own code.