The content below is outside of the Blackboard Learn environment.

Starting in Blackboard Learn 9.1SP3, when you display external links within the same window, you get a RED status "The content below is outside of the Blackboard Learn environment."

Users are either confused or annoyed by this red alert, even though it is benign.

We had put in an enhancement request to at least make it a "green" alert ("green" good, "red" bad).

Ross Brown at NKU suggested:

Try editing or removing the text from the language pack. I think this
is in content.properties.

So I copied the Language Pack for en_US, started the Language Pack editor, searched for the string "The content below is outside", and found the entry in the content.properties.

I changed it from

content.wrapper.link.external.warning=The content below is outside of the Blackboard Learn environment.

to

content.wrapper.link.external.warning=<div class="receipt good">The content below is outside of the Blackboard Learn environment.</div>

Result:

And then I tried blanking out content.wrapper.link.external.warning.

Result:

Update: 11/30/2011

In 9.1SP7, I found that the message is now tagged as

which has a blueish  gray color

.infoReceipt {background:#6D8AAF; border-color:#62758F; color:#fff;}