External Links

Customise the display and functionality of links to external websites or email addresses on your site. You can:

• Display an icon next to external/mailto links
• Open external links in a new window/tab
• Show a popup message when clicking on external links

Installation

• Install this module using the official Backdrop CMS instructions at https://backdropcms.org/guide/modules.

• Visit the configuration page under Administration > Configuration > User Interface > External links (admin/config/user-interface/extlink) to fine-tune the settings.

A note about the CSS

This module adds a CSS file that is only a few lines in length. You may choose to move this CSS to your theme to prevent the file from needing to be loaded separately. To do this:

1. Open the .info file for your theme and add this line of code to prevent the extlink.css file from loading: stylesheets[all][] = extlink.css

2. Copy all the code from this module's css/extlink.css file into your theme's CSS file.

3. Copy the images/extlink.png and images/mailto.png files to your theme's directory.

Note that you DO NOT need to make an extlink.css file in your theme. Specifying the file in your theme's .info file is enough to tell Backdrop not to load this module's version of the CSS.

Issues

Bugs and Feature Requests should be reported in the Issue Queue: https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/extlink/issues.

Current Maintainers

• Nate Lampton
• Laryn Kragt Bakker

Credits

• Ported to Backdrop CMS by Nate Lampton.
• Originally written for Drupal by Nate Lampton.
• Built by Robots.

License

This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.