Re: [PHP] target question
[email protected] (Stuart Dallas)
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On 25 Mar 2013, at 16:35, "Ford, Mike" <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul M Foster [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 25 March 2013 16:09 >> >> This behavior of the browser actually conforms to the standard as >> far as >> I know. The "target" attribute is attached only to the <a> tag, >> according to w3schools.com > > Actually, the W3C HTML 4.01 Recommendation says: > > target = frame-target [CI] > > This attribute specifies the name of a frame where a document > is to be opened. > > By assigning a name to a frame via the name attribute, authors > can refer to it as the "target" of links defined by other > elements. The target attribute may be set for elements that > create links (A, LINK), image maps (AREA), and forms (FORM). > > In the current HTML5 draft, target is explicitly a permitted > attribute of the form tag -- although I believe it was originally > marked as deprecated. Indeed. In fact w3schools.com is known to be a very unreliable source of information these days. My advice would be to avoid it at all costs! http://w3fools.com/ -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/