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Friday, February 27, 2004

Mozilla (Firefox) Sidebars

Now that I've written a kick-ass bookmark script I want to make it fit in my browser sidebar -- partly for the ease of use and partly so that I don't leave referrers everywhere I visit.

So, here's the Mozilla documentation on how to make sidebars, though it seems old and I'm wondering if it's out of date.

Update: Firefox lets you use any web page you have bookmarked as a sidebar panel, but it makes all links open in the main browser window. I'd like to make some open in the sidebar and others open in the main browser window. I can use target="_content" on links I want to open in the main browser window, but what do I use for links I want to open in the sidebar?

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. wrote:

_self ?

∴ . | 27-Feb-2004 8:05pm est | #4026

Hmm... thanks a bunch, let me try that.

Yep, worked! Because _content was a Mozilla-specific frame name, I had incorrectly assumed that the sidebar would have its own specific target name I'd have to use. I hadn't considered using _self. In fact, it's been so long since I've used frames in HTML that I had mostly forgotten about targets and the special target names I just linked.

Thanks again.

∴ Keith | 28-Feb-2004 4:12am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #4029

The sidebar actually does have it's own name: target="_search"

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