Drop Down Menu

I have added a drop down menu for a link in the menubar and all works just fine excepting that I would like the links in this drop down to open in a new page as they are external links and I don't want my members to leave the forum in order to go to the links. I have tried adding target="_blank" but it doesn't seem to want to work with the drop down menu. I did search the forums for an answer but couldn't find anything.

Help please :)

We use TARGET="_new"

I tried that too Peggy with no luck. Is it the part below where I am supposed to be adding the code to open in a new window, or elsewhere??


<!-- mypopupmenu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="mypopupmenu_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

<tr><td class="thead">USCIS</td></tr>
<tr><td class="thead"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/ptimes.jsp">Processing Dates</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=Vermont">Vermont Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=California">California Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=Nebraska">Nebraska Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=Texas">Texas Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/NBCprocesstimes.jsp">National Benefits Center</a></td></tr>

</table>
</div>
<!-- / mypopupmenu -->

Example, in this link from above you would add it here:

<a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/ptimes.jsp" target="_new">

HTHs

thanks mac

It works for the first link as in your post but for whatever reason does not work for the other links

Here is what I have


<!-- mypopupmenu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="mypopupmenu_menu" style="display:none">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

<tr><td class="thead">USCIS</td></tr>
<tr><td class="thead"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/ptimes.jsp" target="_new">Processing Dates</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=Vermont" target="_new">Vermont Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=California" target="_new">California Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=Nebraska" target="_new">Nebraska Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=Texas" target="_new">Texas Service Center</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/NBCprocesstimes.jsp" target="_new">National Benefits Center</a></td></tr>

</table>
</div>
<!-- / mypopupmenu -->

Well this seems to be an issue with VB. I have researched it some and found that others have had this issue. I will look into it further and see if there is a way to do it for you.

Try and switch out the target="_new" to this target="_blank"

Switching to target="_blank" doesn't work either http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8132/cray5ol.gif

Ok, so what we have is target="_new" working providing that the link is straight forward, but when the link calls for it to open as in ?SeviceCenter=Vermont, it then ignores the command to open in a new window. The weird thing is though, the last link is similar to the first link with no extra call in the link, yet that doesn't wish to work either. Could the answer be in that the first link is in <td class="thead"> with all the others being <td class="vbmenu_option"> Is there something that could be added to the td class to make this work???

Is there something that can be added to the vbulletin_menu.js perhaps????