I'm creating an instant topic from a section of my website.

The URL is: http://forums.galveston.com/groupee/forums?a=dl&f=92010...sseawall/default.asp

Upon clicking that link, you are then taken to that topic in the forum.

Once in, you'll then see a RE link, taking you to http://209.250.76.91/mariosseawall/default.asp

When that link is clicked, a new window is launched. I DO NOT WANT A NEW WINDOW TO BE LAUNCHED. I want - when you click that link - for the person to simply leave the forum and go to that link, in the same existing window.

I tried editing the instant topic link to include http://forums.galveston.com/groupee/forums?a=dl&f=92010...ault.asp&target=_top

with no avail.

can you give me a fix?

thanks.

Not sure this will work but try:

target="_self"

I don't see any "" in: target="_top" so that may give you the desired result as well.

PLUS you didn't warn me that I would be getting hungry for pizza when I clicked the link!

Hope this helps,
Jay

When you create your hyperlink, you need to put the target="_self" inside your A tag.

Example:

<a href=\"http://someurl.com/test.php\" target=\"_self\">Open Me a new Window</a>

Actually, i'm not creating the tag - groupee is. the long code i'm creating to do the instant topic doesn't have a href anywhere - that's created by groupee when the instant topic is created. and groupee is adding the "target=_blank" tag as well - which i wish to turn off.

You're right that Groupee is creating that link and it does add in the _new to create another window. The purpose is so that someone can see the originating page without leaving the discussion.

There isn't a way to disable that default behavior short of *not* including an x_link paramter in your instant topic URL and then hardcoding in a return link manually in the topic. However, that is a bit self defeating.