I don't understand the wording of this question. Is this close at all? $(".external").target("_blank");

Hi Chris!

You are close. I agree the wording is pretty hard to grasp.

What the challenge is asking you to do is to select all the links with the class external, and give them all the attribute target, with a value of _blank. You need to add the a element so you're selecting links, and you need to use the attr function in jQuery, which takes two arguments: the attribute, and the value you want to set it to. In our case, that's "target" and "_blank":

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

Happy coding!

-Greg

Forgive my earlier comment, you did link it to the code challenge. My apologies.

First, I'll post the answer to the code challenge, then I'll explain it.

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

You need to select all the links with the class external.

$('a.external');

Next, you need to alter their attribute, specifically the attribute called target. You do this by adding .attr() to the end of the jquery object you created that targets all links with the class external. Inside the .attr() method you need two arguments. The first, as shown below, is the attribute you want to edit, in this case, target.

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

Finally, you need to use the space for the second argument to change the attribute. In this case, you are changing the value of the attribute target to _blank.

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

Additionally, you don't need to use the $(a.external') in the exercise. You can simply use $('.external), but the former is more specific and in larger projects would be best practice.

I hope that makes sense. If you have any other questions feel free to ask!

John