[thelist] target="_new" and xhtml 1.0

Aylard JA (James) jaylard at equilon.com
Wed Aug 2 10:12:36 CDT 2000


George,

	As Erika suggested, use the "loose" dtd. The HTML 4 

James Aylard
mailto:jaylard at equilon.com
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Martinez Refining Company, a Division of Equilon Enterprises LLC


> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Donnelly [mailto:gsd at mac.com]
> Sent: August 01, 2000 5:16 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] target="_new" and xhtml 1.0
> 
> 
> when i validated the following page
> [http://www.cyklotron.com/journal/countries/colombia/19941221a
> ] at the w3c
> website I got the following error:
> 
> *    Line 59, column 828:
> 
>   ... n Spanish about El Parque de San Antonio." 
> target="_new" href="http://
> ...
>                                                         ^
> Error: there is no attribute "target"
> 
> here is the link i am using:
> 
> <a title="click here to see a short article in Spanish about 
> El Parque de
> San Antonio." target="_new"
> href="http://trmde.laciudad.com/entretenimiento/arte/contenido
> _arte.php3?cod
> igo=55"> here</a>
> 
> 
> tia! i can't figure it out
> 
> Regards,
> GEORGE DONNELLY
> george at cyklotron.com
> http://cyklotron.com/
> "There are no absolutes," they chatter, blanking out the fact 
> that they are
> uttering an absolute. -Ayn Rand
> 
> >> apparently target is no longer a valid attribute in xhtml 
> 1.0. is this
> >> right?
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any problem with the target attribute, and my
> > reading of the XHTML spec doesn't suggest any problems, 
> either. What prompts
> > your question?
> > 
> > James Aylard
> 
> 
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