FAQ: Learn HTML Elements - Common HTML Elements - Opening Links in a New Window

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2 posts were split to a new topic: I don’t understand

What the difference between _top and _parent? Upon trying all the attributes of target it seems like top and parent has the same purpose.

Can someone explain it to me

Thank you in advance :smile:

seems to be used when frames where popular:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18470097/difference-between-self-top-and-parent-in-the-anchor-tag-target-attribute

Can we open a link directly in new incognito tab?

Not so far i know, googling seems to confirm it:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24647899/html-a-hyperlink-target-inprivate-incognito-window

make sense you can’t force people into private navigation, should be the users choice

Hello,

I am getting the special character must be escaped but i can’t seem to find the error

  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear"target="_blank">Learn More</a>
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missing%20tag

attributes should be separated by spaces, so there should be a space between " and target

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Oh, i didn’t know that . Thank you very much for your help:)

Why is the way the attribute is defined so strange (written with an underscore)? Why was it not decided to use “target=blank” or “target=new” for example?

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I think there is a problem with this page. I was unable to proceed until I replaced the entire link with the text Learn More with the example link: a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear” target="_blank">The Brown Bear

I have the same question as blogwhizz20587: why is an underscore used? Why is it not: target=“blank”?

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on the target _blank attribute that causes the webpage to open the hyperlink in a new page. does this bypass any “pop up” blocks the person looking at your page may have set on their browser? Or is html taking care of that by letting the browser know that this is not a pop up? Or am I all wrong on my term PopUP

I think target blank will work in most cases, and its not considered pop-up. But its a complex story with a lot of nuances, because most modern browsers open new webpage in a tab instead of a new window

Most people will use there browser built-in pop-up blocker, so unless your link goes to a well known ad-site, you should be good

of course, sometimes users might have installed custom addons/plugins so you might still get blocked, although pop-ups usually don’t use <a target="_blank">

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Thank You so much!
I appreciate it!
I did not expect such a speedy response :slight_smile:

Could we add multiple href/hyperlinks in an anchor tag?

Why would you want to do that?

Then simply create multiple anchor elements for the user to click on