----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Fiskeaux II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>

> "_new" isn't valid HTML.  Try "_blank" or "new" and see if either of those
> works.

Actually, what happens is if you don't specify an existing target you get a
new window with the name specified. This is why "_new" has become popularly
believed to be correct: it works, but only the first time it is used. The
same would apply to "new" if you used that. The problem is that with any
such name, when you target it again, the existing window is overwritten with
the new content. The correct target to create a new window every time is
"_blank", nothing else.

See the part about "magic target names" for the list of special targets,
which were introduced along with frames, in Netscape 2:
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/target.html

- Robert

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