target="???"

[David Harrison]

I have several links to someone else's site and and I want to opne them all in different windows, up to now I've just been putting target="new1", target="new2" etc.
Is there another way of doing this?

[khalidali63]

target="new1"...
might have worked,however the valid target attribute values are

target = "_blank"
target = "_parent"
target = "_self"
target = "_top"

you need to use
target = "_blank" to open a new window

Hope this helps

Cheers

Khalid

[David Harrison]

Thanks, it was a simple question, but I'd never needed to open a new window from a link before.

[DrDaMour]

when/why did they get rid of target="_new", i've used that code for a while now wihtout realizing it is defunct

[David Harrison]

I did try _new because it seemed familiar some how but it didn't work so I was stuck.

[khalidali63]

Originally posted by DrDaMour
when/why did they get rid of target="_new".....
As far as I know, target="_new" has never been a valid attribue for anchor tags

Cheers

Khalid

[DrDaMour]

it was in html 3.0, but it seems what the w3 decided it was dumb to have _new but _blank wasn't dumb. Explain that? Anways i guess it's been out of service for 3 years now.

[khalidali63]

I agree,because before HTML 3.02 there wasn't even a target attribute at all..for anchor element

Khalid