[thelist] Target="_blank" error

Jay Turley jayturley at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 14:37:47 CST 2009


If you have to use Strict, then you can use javascript to enhance the
links to open in a new window without voiding your validation.

Jay

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Paul Wampler <pwampler at cupahr.org> wrote:
> If you're using a strict DOCTYPE, you can't specify a target for a link. If you switch the DOCTYPE to xhtml 1.0 Transitional, you should be fine setting targets for your links.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Stacie Pearson
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:04 PM
> To: thelist html
> Subject: [thelist] Target="_blank" error
>
> How come I am getting this error when I validate my markup?
>
> The tag: "a" doesn't have an attribute: "target" in currently active
> versions.[XHTML 1.0 strict]
>
> The error is referring to: target="_blank".
> I thought that is what I was supposed to use if I wanted the browser to open
> a new tab/window, and not be taken from my site.
>
> Below is the code:
>
> <p>Portfolio photography by <a href="http://www.paulpearsonphoto.com/"
> title="See Paul's site" target="_blank">Paul Pearson Photography</a></p>
>
> Thanks,
> Stacie
>
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