HTML - Html Href "target=" Browser Issues

I regularly send e-mails with large PDF attachments and quite often the e-mails bounce back from their servers, even with really small attachments. I would normally just send a link to a file on our server, but my boss doesn't like this because he tried opening it on his machine and his plug-in for Adobe is corrupt giving him a blank screen, and this leads him to believe this is what others are seeing. I know, I know... But I am not in a position to educate him on fixing his own computer.

My question is: Is there ANY workaround to creating a link that will open a PDF in reader directly? I cannot use PHP or any other server-side script as this is an e-mail, not a web site. But I can't risk sending attachments that bounce back. Any solution to this??

-Ryan

Hi! I would like to be able to click on a button on my page and have the page automatically scroll down (or up), BUT I DON'T want to specify the address of the site or the name of the file... So the following won't do:
<a href="filename.html#gohere">button</a>
<span id="gohere"> text

Is there a way to introduce an anchor without having to name the source? I want the users of my page to be able to change the name of the file and still have it work.. if at all possible. Please let me know.

huge thanks in advance!
evajs

*please bear with me this is a simple problem which is sort of hard to explain*

I run a very small (15 page) website for myself. The site consists of an image_list page, which is an index of 13 thumbnail images. Each thumbnail links to a single page, each page being a larger image of the respective thumbnail. These 13 individual pages are directed at the same base target window, _ximage.

you can find the image_list window he
http://www.winslowsmith.com/work/index.html

click on any one of these thumbnail links and a new window (_ximage) will open. navigate back to the image_list and click another link, the _ximage window will reload with the new page. Pretty simple, right?, just a <base target=""> command.

In safari this all looks swell, and the _ximage window, whether open or not, will always come to the foreground to load.

Not the case in Firefox.

My problem in Firefox is as follows: opening one of the given links in image_list will load a new window (or tab), with _ximage target, and the first time, that new window/tab with _ximage target will come to focus and be in the foreground.

However, if the viewer leaves the _ximage window open, and navigates back to the image_list window and clicks another link, that link will load appropriately but the _ximage window will remain in the background. (and it works the same whether you are using windows or tabs to load your new pages). This is frustrating because it forces the viewer to click twice rather than just once to get to one of these 13 pages, and said pages are the reason people would traffic to the site.

Is there any way to have the links to base (_ximage) target always load in the foreground in Firefox(even when the target window _ximage is open)? Is there code to tell the Firefox browser, hey this is an important window load it in the foreground?

Is there a way to do it with anchors?

any help is appreciated

Hi, please have a look at a work in progress here.

This theme temps to have a mind of its own... the 3 links that you see on the page wont open in a new tab whatever I try.

Could someone tell me whats causing this?

Thanks you.

So in a regular html text link, I can place the tag target="_blank" and it will open a new window when you click the link, and place the links contents into that new window. However, if I add that tag to a link associated with an image, the link replaces the current frame with the link contents. Is there any simple html way to have an image link open a new window?

- Neil