I knew someone could explain it better than me:-) There just does not seem to be a way to enter html in the gui for an external link in the menu design.
Peter
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Jie
That works fine if you want to create the link from an Announcement, say, but I don't think it works as an External Link.
In an announcement, you can edit the HTML and insert the target="_top" within the <a href> tag. But that same flexibility isn't available using the External Link functionality: if I provide the URL as
http://www.tvu.ac.uk <http://www.tvu.ac.uk/> target="_top"
my browser actually translates that as http://www.tvu.ac.uk%20target=%22_top%22/
which of course cannot be found.
Has anyone found a way round this?
Andy Turner
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> Hi Peter,
>
> You may try creating a course menu button of 'External Link' type and
> entering the
> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "bbsiteaddress" claiming to be http://bbsiteAddress/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/co <http://bbsiteaddress/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/co>
> mmon/course.pl?course_id=_3458_1" target="_top as URL. The http part can
> be copied from course site link under 'My Courses'.
>
> Jie
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> Peter
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>
> Sorry to those who realise I have asked this before but I was surprised
> that no-one said I had missed the obvious, or may be I just did not
> explain what I wanted to do!
>
> In a pretty much normal Blackboard course I want to have an option in
> the left-hand menu bar that opens a new blackboard course. However
> rather than having that open within the right hand content window
> (nested as it were) I want it to completely overwrite the active window.
> Can anyone suggest how to do that please?
>
> Peter
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