Question

I’m using Colorbox to display course info for a college (see page). In each pop-up is a button that links to a class registration page which I’d like to open in an external window or tab. Using a standard a tag with a target=”_blank” doesn’t work (see all but the first course (Advanced Cake Decorating I) – the pop-up shrinks to an empty window. I can get it to work by attaching a window.open() function to an onclick event, but that also shrinks the pop-up. I’d like to open the class registration link in it’s own window/tab and keep the colorbox pop-up open for reference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best – Joe

Answer 1

Have you tried the click handler window.open technique, but then prevent the event bubbling on the click event?

eg:

    $(".mylink").click(function(event){
        event.stopPropagation();
        window.open( ... );
    });