[Pro] Creating a link to an additional browser window.

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Freeway Talk,
Can someone please share with me how you simply create a link (or hyperlink) that opens another browser window instead of redirecting you to another page?
I know it must be a basic operation, but I can’t seem to figure it out.
Thanks! Cory

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Sometime around 28/12/09 (at 10:49 -0500) Cory Falter said:

Can someone please share with me how you simply create a link (or
hyperlink) that opens another browser window instead of redirecting
you to another page?

Hi Cory,

A normal link opens the destination web page in the same window.

A normal link that has a target set will open the destination web
page in a different browser window, a new browser window, or a
different frame in a frameset.

There are a few special link target names: “_blank” (always produces
a new window), “_parent” and “_top” (unlikely to be relevant for
you), and “_self”, which explicitly targets the same container
(window or frame), in case there’s a page-wide target set. Again,
you’re unlikely to do this.

Using any other name for the target will produce a new browser window
the first time it is used. After then, links targeted at that name
will load in the same window.

To make a link have a target, select the link text or graphic and
choose Edit > Hyperlink. Pick a predefined name from the Target menu
or type a one-word custom name of your own.

NOTE: If your page is set to HTML 4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Strict
then Target is not available. This is a deprecated attribute, meaning
that the powers that be have deemed it dated and unwanted. No, they
didn’t ask us first.

k

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Additionally,

Using any other name for the target will open the web page in a frame
of that name, if there is a frameset in use.

But do try to avoid using framesets if you can avoid it.

k

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