HTML - Do You Think Target="_blank" Should Be Put On Links?

*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

Hello,

I've got a simple page with frames and a list of links. I'm trying to get hyperlinks to open into a frame called "PicFrame."

The code I've got works (opens the link into the PicFrame) in IE8, FF, Opera, and Chrome, but not IE6 or IE7 which is what my 2 computers use most-frequently.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround?
A fragment of the simple code is below.

Thanks.

HTML Code:

//WITHOUT A HYPERLINK
<TR><TD>
<font size=2 face="verdana">Team 6  -  Dewey, Killum, & Howe</font>
</TD></TR>
                		       
				
//WITH A HYPERLINK                                
<TR><TD>
<font size=2 face="verdana">Team 7  - <a href="picturePage.PHP?id=003-1-2009-07"; target="PicFrame";> Setting John Malkovich</a></font>
</TD></TR>

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

Hello,

I'm using this tutorial on creating an ipod-esque "cover flow" photo album for a presentation I'm putting together:
http://www.elated.com/articles/cover...ss-and-jquery/

What I'm trying to figure out is how do I make each image a clickable link that will open a url in a new window. I know the code is Code:

<a href="URL" target="_blank"</a>

but I have no idea where to begin and end the tags. I either need it where I can click on each picture, or the text under each picture so that each one has a separate URL that opens in a new window. thanks

Hey Guys,

I know XHTML pretty good, but have recently been trying my hand with Dreamweaver to bang out some websites for other people.
I need to know how I can take a basic link, for example...
[<a href="http://www.kilroymusic.com/press.htm>]
and have it appear without a line under it? I know how to change the link color, and the visited link color. But there doesn't seem to be an intuitive way in Dreamweaver to get rid of the line.

Hopefully I have made what I am talking about clear. I don't care if you tell me how to do it in Dreamweaver or manually with code. This is just killing me.

Thanks guys!

Kilroy

http://www.colletts.co.uk/winter_dolomites.htm

I have the above page that redirects users to my Winter Website - the HTML below isn't valid W3C does anyone know of a better and valid way to get this done? Cheers, Mas

HTML Code:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="2.5;URL=http://www.colletts.co.uk/winter/winter_dolomites.html" />

A customer gave me a Word doc that they want turned into a printer friendly web page. I understand that there are tons of ways to do this but I really want the answer to the subject. What i'm referring to is a form that someone can print from the browser and "fill in the blanks" on the page where there are "underscores". My question is how to code those underscores. I tried manipulating the <hr> tag but it's putting way too much space in between each <hr>. I've already coded a "fill in the blank" line using <u>&nbsp;nbsp;</u> but that looks very messy.

What do you guys/gals think?

I was hoping someone could clue me in as to whether or not this would be possible. I'm thinking it isn't but I need to make sure. I'd like to provide a file for people to download on my website, but when they click on the link and the download window appears I don't want them to have the option of opening it. Is it possible to only give them the option to save the file?

Sounds incredibly unlikely but I gotta know.

Hey all,

So my boss has asked me to consolidate a whole bunch of HTML pages into one jsp page, and I'm having some trouble with the links. Basically the plan is to link to the same page while setting the "location" variable on the server to something else, so the jsp page can check the location variable and make the page accordingly. However, I don't want to just append the the location variable to the url, because its kind of ugly, so I would prefer if there was a way for the links to send a location string using a POST method. I could then use a getParameter call on the server to get the location, and the jsp page could adjust accordingly. Is this possible? Or will I be stuck linking back to the same page but with "?location=index" added to the url? Thanks beforehand.

Cheers,
Lukas

Let me see if I can explain this correctly:

What I want to do is place all of my pages in a single external file (so that as I add pages, I only have to add that link to one file). Then, place links on each page for "Previous" and "Next". When "Next" is clicked, the next file in the list is linked and likewise with "Previous".

As it stands, the only way I see to use "Previous" and "Next" is to hard code the links in each page. But that will become a pain since my pages are in alphabetical order and I would have to redo dozens (or more) pages each time I add a new page.

Thanks in advance...

Hello,

I want to load a page in a iframe, and when i do this, i want that page to be displayed not at the begining of that page, i want that page to be displayed at a "x" and "y" position specificated by me. How can i do that?

Thank you.

hi,
i am working on <div> i have to hide some part of the table. I am not able to hide that table part can anybady tell me where is the error.

Code:

<html>
<head>
    
            <script type="text/javascript">
             function callme(){
                  document.getElementById("hid").style.visibility="visible";
              }
             function hideme(){
                  document.getElementById("hid").style.visibility="hidden"; 
             }
           </script>
 
</head>
<body>
<form name="myform">
 
<table width="100%"  border="4" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
        <tr>
            <td  class="tableheader" colspan="9">TS </td>
        </tr>
     <div style="visibility:hidden" id="hid">
        <tr>
            <td width="17%" class="labeltext">Tran Code</td>
            <td width="1%"  class="blanktext">:</td>
            <td colspan="4" class="blanktext">Name</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="17%" class="labeltext">Product Type</td>
            <td width="1%"  class="blanktext">:</td>
            <td colspan="4" class="blanktext">
            </td>
        </tr>
     </div>
        <tr>
           <td>
           </td>
        </tr>
 
</table>
 
<input type="button" onclick="callme()" value="show">
<input type="button" onclick="hideme()" value="hide">
 
</form>
</body>
</html>

thx in Adv,
Hanm.

Howdy all,
I've noticed when you use rel="" in an a tag, that the link, becomes void, it does not redirect you when you click on it.
What can i do to get around this?

Thank you,
Jared

Hi, here is my problem...

I need to know how to make a link to a specal section of another page.

For example: "Browse by artist - A B C D E F G ect..."

I want to have all of the letters be a link to the "list of artists" page but I need them to lead the user to that section whether it be the "A", "M" or "Z" section.

Hope you can help, until then i be answering as many of your questions as I can. Thanks!

Hi all,

I am currently working on a website using Dreamweaver CS3.

Whenever I view the (currently very basic) site in Firefox I get the line of code I entered as the title of this thread at the top of the page (directly above the banner) as if I had just typed it into the canvas area (correct term?). Whenever I view it in IE it appears just fine, not sure about other browsers though.

I began by creating a template and adding it to the page you see he

HTML Code:

http://www.geocities.com/makotronic/indexx.htm

Here is the code for the template:

Code:

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Template for Parish Website</title>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
body,td,th {
	font-family: Arial Narrow, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.style5 {font-size: 14px}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<table width="750" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><img src="../Images/welcomebanner.gif" width="750" height="125" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="160"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
    <td width="590" align="left" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="Main Body" -->Main Body<!-- TemplateEndEditable --></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

And for indexx.htm (I added a second 'x' because I already had a 'index.htm' file in GeoCities):

Code:

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/template.dwt.asp" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Welcome to the Greencastle Parish Website</title>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style8 {
	font-size: 36px;
	font-weight: bold;
}
-->
</style>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
body,td,th {
	font-family: Arial Narrow, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.style5 {font-size: 14px}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<table width="750" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><img src="Images/welcomebanner.gif" width="750" height="125" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="160"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
    <td width="590" align="left" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      
      <tr>
        <td><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main Body" -->          <span class="style8">Header</span>
          <p class="style3">Main Body</p>
        <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
<!-- InstanceEnd --></html>

Cheers for any help!

Niall