Cannot Change Form Target Attribute

There's no need to hack the core files. You can easily set the target attribute with some simple jQuery added to your page template.

<script type="text/javascript">
	jQuery(document).ready(function() {
 		jQuery("#gform_XX").attr("target", "_blank");
	});
 </script>

where "gform_XX" is the actual ID of your form.

This isn't a flaw, nor do I personally agree that it's a basic necessity. The target attribute has been deprecated for the form tag, so I'm not sure if we'll add this as an admin option or not in the future (though your can still do this via a hook). We'll definitely consider it though.

Samantha, I'm having a hard time visualizing this.. maybe it's just me today. Can you share a URL to the page you're referring to so I can get a look?

Okay, guess I didn't get back to this soon enough, I just see the maintenance mode notice but I think I get it better now. It sounds like you want to use jQuery to add the class attribute to the ad image hyperlink and not the form itself.

I'd have to see how the markup is to tell you for sure, but it would be more like this.. assuming the image was in a div called "billboard_widget"..

<script type="text/javascript">
	jQuery(document).ready(function() {
 		jQuery("#billboard_widget a").attr("class", "iframeFancybox1");
	});
 </script>

Does that make sense? I hope I understood correctly.

Samantha.

It should be working now. It's working in my tests.

Here's what I did. We needed to target the "a" href for the link on that image. The script needed to be in the page with the image/link and not the page with the form.

So, I went to your header.php file and updated the jQuery snippet at the top to add the new class attribute and also remove the unnecessary target attribute. Now the snippet looks like this..

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {

        $(".ithemes-billboard-1wtrial a").attr("class", "iframeFancybox1");
        $(".ithemes-billboard-1wtrial a").removeAttr("target");

	$("a.iframeFancybox1").fancybox({
		'width'		      :	650,
		'height'		      :	725,
		'overlayOpacity'	 :	'0.4',
		'overlayColor'		 :	'#000',
		'hideOnContentClick' :   false,
		'autoScale'     	 :   false,
   		'transitionIn'		 :   'elastic',
		'transitionOut'	 :   'elastic',
		'type'			 :   'iframe'
	});

  });
</script>

You'll see that this only adds the attribute to the link in the unique class name you defined for the billboard. If you want to use it for other class names, just copy those two lines, change the class name and place those directly below the first ones in the code.

Hope that helps.