Stylesheets - Re: How do I specify <a href="..." target="

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Re: How do I specify <a href="..." target="_blank">...</a&g

Spartanicus

2004-08-03, 12:17 pm

"Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>The code
> <a href="..." target="_blank">...</a>

Wrong group, crossposted and follow up set to
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

>will not validate as XHTML STRICT because of the 'target' tag

Attribute.

>, so how do I
>achieve the same result by moving it to a CSS file?

CSS is for presentation.

>I cannot find anything
>which allows me to specify 'target=' on an anchor tag.

Good, leave opening new windows/tabs to the user.

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Spartanicus

Jamie

2004-08-03, 7:17 pm

Tony Marston wrote:

> The code
> <a href="..." target="_blank">...</a>
> will not validate as XHTML STRICT because of the 'target' tag, so how do I
> achieve the same result by moving it to a CSS file? I cannot find anything
> which allows me to specify 'target=' on an anchor tag.
>

Here's how:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1041

It requires Javascript, but the code seems pretty simple.

Jamie