adding rel=“external” to every link

Question

Hi I need to add rel="external" to every link () on my site is this possible?

so far i have tried $(".content a").attr("rel","external”);

I would add them manually but it is a 1000 page site and don't really want to code it on every link

thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you want it on all your links then you have to iterate through all of them and change that attribute

$(function () {
  $('a').each(function () {
    $(this).attr('rel', 'external');
  });
});

If your intent is to change every link within the element with class content then what you have should properly change it just wrap it in the function

$(function () {
  $('.content a').each(function () {
    $(this).attr('rel', 'external');
  });
});

Inspect the links in this jsfiddle to see that the attr has been added to those existing links http://jsfiddle.net/4d06xb0x/