2009/1/16 Stacie Pearson <stacie at saracenodesign.com>: > 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. What I haven't seen in this thread is that you don't have to use the transitional DTD. In XHTML, all HTML-elements that cope with windows, like frames and the target-attribute, are split off in the Frameset-DTD. So use this Doctype if you want a strict DTD and be able to use the target-attribute: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd"> Here's the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative Edwin Martin -- http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/en/