function initLinks() {

    // find all the links in the document
    var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
    // loop through the links and add onclick event handler to the appropriate
    // (in this case ones with class of 'newWin' somewhere in the 'class' attribute
    // also changes the title of the link (to refelect js enabled and opening new window)

    for(var i=0;i<links.length;i++) {

        var linkClassAttribute = links[i].className.toLowerCase();

        if(linkClassAttribute.match("newwin")) {

            links[i].onclick = openNewWin;

            links[i].onkeypress = openNewWin;

            var linkTitle = links[i].getAttribute("title");

            if(linkTitle) {

            links[i].setAttribute("title", linkTitle + " (will open in a new window)");

                }

            }

       

        }

 

}


function openNewWin() {

    // quite simple.... open new window with referenced objects href

    if(window.open(this.href)) {

        return false;

        } else {

    return true;

    }   

}   

   

window.onload = function() {

        initLinks();

}