<----- Original Message ----- <From: "Tim Luoma" <luomat at peak.org> <I'm fully expecting that someone will write a DTD for XHTML1.1 that adds <the target back in ;-) that shouldn't be to hard, this should work as modified doctype: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" [ <!ATTLIST a target CDATA #IMPLIED>]> So you can validate strict, and keep the target attribute on links. Cheers, Richard.