Topic awaiting preservation: About:blank in javascript (Page 1 of 1)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone know if there's a javascript version of target="_blank"?
Since popups are evil, and some redirections needs to be done using javascript, and sometime while keeping the current page, it could come in handy.
- If this is a stupid question, I appologize, but I googled around and could'nt find anything..

(^-^)b

I don't understand what you want. Do you want to open a popup/emulate the target attribute where its not allowed by the DOCTYPE or not ? If you do, then you could use the rel attribute of the A tags to denote if they are external, then onload of the page, detect these A tags and onclick trigger a window.open( this.href, "", "" ).

This always works for me, and gets around the validation problems where the DOCTYPE will not allow a "target=":

<a href="somefile.html" onclick="this.target = '_blank';">link text</a>

Dan