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Philip M · 10-05-2012, 08:55 AM

Your visitor is supposed to be the one deciding what opens where - that's why the target attribute was made obsolete in 1997. It was only valid in HTML 3.2.
Most people don't want new browser windows opening any more and prefer either to have them open in a new tab or as an overlay on the current page.
There never has been any way to specify a new tab in HTML or JavaScript since tabbed browsers were introduced long after 1997.

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Philip M Supreme Master coder! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 17,044 Thanks: 197 Thanked 2,412 Times in 2,390 Posts	Your visitor is supposed to be the one deciding what opens where - that's why the target attribute was made obsolete in 1997. It was only valid in HTML 3.2. Most people don't want new browser windows opening any more and prefer either to have them open in a new tab or as an overlay on the current page. There never has been any way to specify a new tab in HTML or JavaScript since tabbed browsers were introduced long after 1997. All advice is supplied packaged by intellectual weight, and not by volume. Contents may settle slightly in transit. __________________ All the code given in this post has been tested and is intended to address the question asked. Unless stated otherwise it is not just a demonstration.