target-new:tab

[mitch]

I want to make a page open a link in a new tab when the user clicks
it. Doing some browsing and experimentation, I found that this code:

<a href="myDocument.html"
target="new"
style="target-name: new; target-new:
tab;"my document </a>

works in Firefox 2 but not in IE 7.

Is there another way to do it that will work across at least these two
browsers? Or is it something that's not supported and that I would be
better off not trying? Thanks.

[Jonathan N. Little]

mitch wrote:

I want to make a page open a link in a new tab when the user clicks
it. Doing some browsing and experimentation, I found that this code:

<a href="myDocument.html"
target="new"
style="target-name: new; target-new:
tab;"my document </a>

works in Firefox 2 but not in IE 7.

Is there another way to do it that will work across at least these two
browsers? Or is it something that's not supported and that I would be
better off not trying? Thanks.

Asked a million times, conservative estimate. Answer is No. You can
neither force a new tab or a new window. It is a user setting. Work in
*your* Firefox only because *your* Firefox is set to open new windows in
a new tab. My SeaMonkey can be set to open all new windows in my
existing window thus nullifying the action entirely...

Basically it is bad form to open a link in a new window or tab on a
user, let them make that decision:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

[mitch]

Thanks. I did search, with google on the web and again inside this
group, before asking.

- Mitch

Asked a million times, conservative estimate. Answer is No. You can
neither force a new tab or a new window. It is a user setting. Work in
*your* Firefox only because *your* Firefox is set to open new windows in
a new tab. My SeaMonkey can be set to open all new windows in my
existing window thus nullifying the action entirely...

Basically it is bad form to open a link in a new window or tab on a
user, let them make that decision:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

[Jonathan N. Little]

mitch wrote:

Thanks. I did search, with google on the web and again inside this
group, before asking.

Really? Not sure I believe you. If you had, you would also learn about
not top posting in Usenet and trimming signatures, and lastly that new
window|tab is a browser user setting and that has been asked and
answered countless times here.

[Your reply should go below this]

>Asked a million times, conservative estimate. Answer is No. You can
neither force a new tab or a new window. It is a user setting. Work in
*your* Firefox only because *your* Firefox is set to open new windows in
a new tab. My SeaMonkey can be set to open all new windows in my
existing window thus nullifying the action entirely...

Basically it is bad form to open a link in a new window or tab on a
user, let them make that decision:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

[and you should trim this when you use GG instead of a newreader]

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIOhttp://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com