[thelist] target="_new" and xhtml 1.0

George Donnelly gsd at mac.com
Tue Aug 1 22:52:52 CDT 2000


ok, that's one solution. but how i do get the same functionality in xhtml
strict?

[explanation: i took that enneagram personality test and scored high on type
1, the perfectionist] ;-p
 
Regards,
GEORGE DONNELLY
george at cyklotron.com
http://cyklotron.com/
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity. --Hanlon's Razor

> Use the "transitional" not the "strict" DTD.
> 
> Erika
> 
>> 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:
>> 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>

>>>> 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. 





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