My events calendar: link styling

[martinziaja]

Hello! Sorry, I’m trying to setup my m.e. calendar and opening the single events page loads ages befor it opens if I use modal pop-up. If I want to open it as a separate page, I don’t find how I can open the page in a new tab…

Could you help me either by telling me why the modal pop-up (lightbox) takes so long to load OR by showing me how to modify the links so that they open up in a new tab?
Here’s the temporary site: https://martinziaja.de/kalender/

Thanks in advance
Martin

[ruenel]

Hello Martin,

Thanks for writing in! Please edit your MEC shortcode. In the MEC shortcode settings, find the “Single Event Display Method” and select “Separate Window”.

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Regards.

[martinziaja]

Hi Ruenel,
thanks for your reply! How to swtich between “separate window” and “modal popup” I know. But modal popup takes ages to load (but it does), so I wanted to use “separate window” - but that opens the event on a separate site in the SAME tab. But I wanted to open it in a NEW tab. If you could tell me how to open the event in a new tab, that would be gorgeous…
Martin

[ruenel]

Hello Martin,

Since that is the case for you, please set it to “Separate Window” and then go to X > Theme Options > Custom JS and insert this custom javascript snippet:

(function($){
	$(".mec-masonry a").each(function(e){
		$(this).attr('target', '_blank')
	});
})(jQuery);

This snippet will bypass code editing and immediate injects target="_blank" to each of the links in your MEC grid.

We would love to know if this has worked for you. Thank you.

[martinziaja]

Hi Ruenel,
thanks so much - it works!
Your support team is amazing…
Have a nice weekend
Martin

[ruenel]

You are most welcome Martin!
It’s good to know that it has worked for you.