- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:40:16 +0200
- To: ian@lemnet.com
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* Ian Thomas wrote: >I have a page with a doctype of HTML 4.01 Strict, containing the tag: ><A target="_blank" href="foo"> > >According to the HTML4 spec: >http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/present/frames.html#target-info > >and the FAQ: >http://www.htmlhelp.com/faq/html/links.html#new-window > >this is the correct syntax to use. However, the validator throws up an >error: >"Error: there is no attribute "TARGET" for this element (in this HTML >version)" >Is this a bug in the validator, or is the FAQ & spec wrong? Take a look at <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes.html>. You will note that HTML 4.01 *Strict* does not include the target attribute, HTML 4.01 Transitional does. Either use Transitional or remove the target attribute.
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