Open Windows in HTML with Standards Compliance

When opening new windows from your web page that link to external files, a common practice is to open them in a new window as not to deter the user from your site.

One method to do this in the past was to use target="_blank" that tells the browser to open the link’s href attribute in a new window. This, however, is deprecated in the Strict Doctype of W3C web standards so we should be trying to avoid using it whenever we can, and in this post I’ll show you exactly how it’s done.

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• Category: Tutorials
• Tags: html, javascript, jquery, rel external, target blank, tutorial, w3c