Re: Problems with the "Target" attribute of an <a> tag entry

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Merlin Griscowsky wrote:

> I was wondering if someone could help me figure this out.
>
> I was attempting to validate the following URL using the W3C HTML Validation
> Service for HTML 4.01(Strict):
>
> http://www.gla-missions.org/content/ministry_adoption_process.htm
>
>
> I managed to address all of the problems that it found, except for one.  The
> validation service outputs an error on this page saying “Error: there is no
> attribute "TARGET" for this element (in this HTML version)”.  The error is
> addressed to the following line of HTML: <a
> href="../downloads/GLA_Adoption_Application.PDF" target="_blank"> which is
> on line 46 of my document.  Am I attempting something invalid (I want the
> link to open up in a new browser window, because it takes a long time to
> load), or is the validation service in need of a tweak?

The TARGET attribute isn't in HTML 4 Strict, just Transitional and
Frameset.

-- 
Liam Quinn

Received on Friday, 30 August 2002 22:11:27 UTC