Website links

[AugustaREGroup]

I should be able to find this soon, but when making a website... How do you get it so links pop up a new window and/or send you to a new tab instead of making you leave the page to view.

TIA

[AugustaREGroup]

Well solved... target="_blank"

[LRE]

at this page from w3schools http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp you find a good explanation of the target attribute.

[NancyDennisAssociates]

Be careful with opening new windows on people. It's not a very accepted practice.

[RESteve]

Be careful with opening new windows on people. It's not a very accepted practice.

The rule of thumb I've always went by is that if you are being taken to a separate website, opening in a new window is acceptable.

If you are linking to an internal page, then open in the same window and do not open a new one.

[AugustaREGroup]

yeah. I was doing it for an external link that goes to another website.

[NancyDennisAssociates]

But what exactly is the reason for making it open in a new window? Shouldn't it be the user's decision as to whether they want a new window or not?

[VRI]

It keeps them on your site so that they don't have to use the back button repeatedly after investigating the external resource.

[homes for sale anchorage]

Validating HTML code is really important, Our webmaster also use http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp upon checking if there is any error with in the codes.