[eevyl]

Hello there,

I discovered that the target attribute for anchor tags is no longer allowed in XHTML 1.0 strict mode, so I wonder if there is an alternative attribute or something but unable to find a solution yet... Any ideas?

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by eevyl:
Hello there,

I discovered that the target attribute for anchor tags is no longer allowed in XHTML 1.0 strict mode, so I wonder if there is an alternative attribute or something but unable to find a solution yet... Any ideas?

Why do you need XHTML 1.0 strict? You could easily use transitional and have the best of both worlds.

[Millennium]

In a case like that, I'd use XHTML Transitional.

You could also use XHTML 1.1; they put target back into that version.

[eevyl]

Originally posted by Millennium:
In a case like that, I'd use XHTML Transitional.

You could also use XHTML 1.1; they put target back into that version.

Well it's not something I need so no reason to step back to transitional. I am just trying to move forward and coding a web from scratch under strict I thought it was a good way to learn it.

Well, I should try to move further and implement it as XHTML 1.1, so I can use target if it is really needed.

[DUNSEL]

There has to be some alternative. How would one use frames without target?

[Turias]

Old code:

<a target="_blank" href="http://some_other_site.com">Some Other site</a>

XHTML Alternative:

<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank'); return false;" href="http://some_oother_site.com">Some Other Site</a>

[DUNSEL]

So now you have to use JS to access a frame? Absurd!

[philzilla]

am i missing something here? anybody?

XHTML 1.0 Frameset - Use this when you want to use Frames to partition the browser window into two or more frames.