[Shadow2531]

I want to be able to send a hotmail user a link through email and not have it appear in the hotmail frame when the user clicks on it.

The server always adds the frame address in front of the url. It is very annoying for my hotmail contacts.

I use outlook express with my isp for email, but I have hotmail also.

I know how to break out of the hotmail frame by putting code in a web page, but I need to do it in the email's html source that I send.

I can do a source edit with outlook express, but all the javascript tricks and html tricks don't seem to work.



In other words, I want to send a hotmail user a link like http://www.winamp.com or something and when the person clicks on it, the link loads up in its own window and not in a hotmail frame.


Has anyone accomplished this?


Thanks

[Snake~eyes]

hotmail accepts html?

did you try coding the link so it opens in a new window?

_blank?

[Shadow2531]

Thanks

Yeh I already tried that.

target="_blank" does just what it's suppose to do and that is open a new window.

you use the target attribute with a link, but hotmail will change the link. A new window will pop up, but the new window will be in a hotmail frame.

For example, if I insert a link for mp3.com

< a href="http://www.mp3.com" target = "_blank" >Click This To Go To MP3.com< / a >


and send it to a hotmail user, the user will see a link that he can click on. Once he clicks on it, a new browser window will open, load the hotmail frame, then load mp3.com in it.

see hotmail adds

http://216.32.180.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=_then_some_more_numbers_and_letters_then_action=http%3a %2f%2fwww%2emp3%2ecom

hotmail will stick that crap in front of every url.

I don't know how I can stop hotmail from adding that crap to the beginning of the url. That crap is the ure for the hotmail frame.

I can't block it. If the frame url always stays the same, maybe I can use javascript to delete that part out and then use a target="_blank"


also, I can do this

< a href="" target=" blank" >click me< / a >

that will load a "about:blank" page in internet explorer that will not be in a frame.

Which is cool, except I need to find a way to automatically make it go to the site I want.

Thanks

[Shadow2531]

javascript works in hotmail if you have it set up with a button to click on, but the support might be limited. hotmail even messes with the url if it is in a script too.

The only thing I can think of doing is using variables.

I don't know how to do it in javascript but I can give an example of what I am trying to accomplish using basic

say the link is http://www.winamp.com

I would have to separate some of the letters in the url so that hotmail doesn't recognize that it is an url.

kind of like this

10 a$="ht"
20 b$="tp"
30 c$="://"
40 d$="ww"
50 e$="w."
60 f$="winamp.co"
70 g$="m"


Then I could use

window.open ('page.html') and instead of putting an url where page.html is I could put

window.open ('a$+b$+c$+d$+e$+f$+g$')

I would probably only have to separate the http:// with variables.

but if somebody could help me on this, that would be great, but if this just sounds like a bunch of funky crap, then I will just forget about it.


As always ,thanks everyone

[Shadow2531]

I conquered hotmail frames just like I wanted to.

I can now send any link in an email to a hotmail user and when they click on it, it will bust out of the hotmail frame.

If anybody wants to know how I did it, let me know.