[thelist] XHTML 1.0 Strict -no target attribute allowed?
Symeon Charalabides
symeon at systasis.com
Sat Oct 23 13:27:33 CDT 2004
> I have run them through the Validator, and the main stumbling block appears
> to be the use of the target attribute for anchors (specifically
> target="_"blank") for links to external sites which I wish to have open in
> a new window. I have been crawling around W3c.org for ages, but cant find
> anything on the syntax that I should use instead.
I have been using the following technique with satisfactory results:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world
The good things about it are:
- you don't cramp your HTML with JS statements that shouldn't be there
- it conforms with the spirit of Web Standards, not only with the syntax
Symeon Charalabides (cosmopolite trainee)
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