graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >> Can someone explain what this means or references: >> >> <a href="main.html" target="_top">
>That is used with frames. A target is basically the window you want to pop up. More specifically, "target" tells your web browser *where* you want the new page (the target page) to open. target="_top" opens the new page in the current browser as the main page: Outside all frames even if you're currently in a framed page. In other words, target="_top" jumps you out of any frames and loads the target page as the only one in the browser. target="new" will open a new (additional) browser window and load the target page in it. This is considered poor netiquette (see mistakes 1 and 2 in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html) and I personally find it so annoying that I use a web proxy set to prevent my browser executing the target="new" command and opening new browser windows on my system. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
