jQuery Plugin That Invisibly Adds An External Window

Externalize is a jQuery plugin that subtly adds an external window creation to a set of links that dynamically sets the name, relation, target, and title attributes to links within the document.

A typical use case for this plug-in is to open the external link in a new window, with the rel = “external” attribute.

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How to make use of it:

Installation:

# Yarn
yarn add jquery-externalize

# NPM
$ npm install jquery-externalize

1. Load each jQuery library and the Externalize plugin’s script on the finish of the doc.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.externalize.js"></script>

2. Initialize the plugin on the links and completed it.

$('.ref a').externalize();

<a href="#">Externalize Links</a>

<a href="#" rel="external" title="Opens in a new window" target="external">Externalize Links</a>

3. Default configuration choices.

$('.ref a').externalize({

  // (string) name of the external window
  name:     "_blank", 

  // (bool) use the "target" HTML attribute to support Firefox tab handling and Safari status bar info
  target:   true, 

  // (string) apply CSS classes to an external link
  classes:  "", 

  // (string) apply a relationship to an external link
  relation: "external", 

  // (string) text added as or appended to the "title" attribute to inform the user about an upcoming new window
  title:    "Opens in a new window" 

});

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