On 9/27/07, Slattery, Tim - BLS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > You could use the "target" attribute of the <form...> tag, which
> > > instructs the browser to open a new window for the result
> > > of the form. That's as close as you're going to get.
> >
> > Same goes for the link <a ...> tag. The attribute you add to
> > make your form/link requests open a new browser window/tab is:
> >
> > target="_blank"
> >
> > Technically, this will open a new window without javascript.
> > It is just adding an HTML attribute to your form or link tags
> > in your generated HTML response. No javascript required.
>
> One caveat on the "target" attribute: it doesn't exist in xhtml 1.1.
Wow! I did not know that. Google to the rescue. Found this related
information online:
<snippet>
JavaScript window object solution:
Javascript provides a partial solution to the problem by passing the
href attribute to the window object's open method, and returning a
value of false. The false return from the event handler prevents the
web browser from following the link specified in the href attribute.
<a href="http://www.TexaStar.com";
onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;"
onkeypress="window.open(this.href); return false;">TexaStar</a>
This previous example provides an onclick event handler for those
using a pointing device, and an onkeypress event handler for those
using a keyboard. However, when JavaScript isn't enabled, the link is
processed as normal, providing a possibly adequate fallback mechanism,
but failing to produce the designer's desired result.
</snippet>
So, it does require a small amount of javascript to make it work in an
XHTML 1.1 compliant manner. This snippet above comes from the
following online source:
http://www.texastar.com/tips/2004/target_blank.shtml
- Van
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