Re: HTML 4.0 Strict DTD & target attribute

"Kevin R. Fields" wrote:
> 
> Hello! Recently I was trying to validate an HTML 4.0 Strict DTD document
> within a
> FRAMESET, and noticed that the HTML Validator service will not validate
> documents that use target as an attribute, such as <a
> href="http://wherever.com" target="frame1">.  This would suggest that target
> as an attribute is depreciated in HTML 4.0. However, the documentation does
> not state that target is a depreciated attribute, and it suggests using
> target as an attribute to open a page in another frame window using both the
> A tag in the BODY and the BASE tag in the HEAD.  Is there any reason why
> this was left out of the HTML 4.0 validation?

The "target" attribute is not in the Strict HTML DTD, only the 
transitional DTD. It is not, however, deprecated.

 - Ian

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