Posted by alice on 12/09/06 23:13

Ed Seedhouse wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2006 12:13:39 -0800, alice@fearofdolls.com wrote:
>
> >I know there is a tag from telling a link to open in a new window
>
> No there isn't. There's an attribute of the <a> tag that will allow
> this but an attribute isn't a tag. Furthermore it's a bad practice and
> it has been depreciated in the latest versions of html and xhtml. You
> can however still do it with javascript. But you shouldn't.
>

Why is this considered bad practice?

> > but
> >is there a way to make a link open in a new tab (for IE7 and other
> >tabbed browsers?).
>
> This is under the control of the user, who can set his browser to do
> that. It isn't under the web page's control.

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