Javascript questions which don't deserve their own thread.

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Elected by Dogs: Apr 20, 2006

I'd like it to prompt the user (ok/cancel) when clicked, with the messagebox saying "You are leaving example.com. We are not responsible for the content of external sites:\n---\n(the href="")\n---\nPlease make sure this link does not look like phishing,etc"

All external links are class="outbound" and can be modified with onclick/etc.

Is there an easy way to do this?

# ¿ Oct 10, 2009 21:03

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 21:03

Elected by Dogs: Apr 20, 2006

Is there a simple way to ask "Are you sure if you want to leave (domain)" on any links clicked that don't match a whitelist of domains (maybe using onunload?)

Googled, couldn't really find anything lightweight

# ¿ Dec 3, 2009 04:19

Elected by Dogs: Apr 20, 2006

Scrap the whitelist I guess.. PHP spits out different URL formats right now depending on where the domain is (/external_leaving?gotourl= final destination)

Would it be easier to just make a function asking to click ok/cancel when a link is onclick=""'d?

# ¿ Dec 3, 2009 04:54

Elected by Dogs: Apr 20, 2006

I'm trying this and it's not confirming or asking anything:

code:

<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var r = /google\.com|youtube\.com|/i;
$("a").click(function() { if (!r.test(this.href)) { return confirm("You are now leaving this site to go to: \n"+this.href+"\n")} });
</script>

</head>
<body>
<a href="http://go.at.se" rel="nofollow" class="outbound extlink">bad link</a>
</body>

I checked error console on firefox, nothing really popped out - any ideas what's wrong?

(sorry, I'm a total newbie to JS)

# ¿ Dec 3, 2009 19:13

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