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Availability

JavaScript 1.0

Synopsis

link.target

Description

target is a read/write string property of
the Link object. It specifies the name of the frame or window in
which the URL referred to by the Link object should be displayed. The
initial value of this property is specified
by the
target attribute of the
<a> tag that creates the Link object. If
this attribute is unset, the default is that the window containing
the link is used, so following a hypertext link overwrites the
document that contains the link.

Note that the value of target is the

name of a frame or window, not an actual
JavaScript reference to the frame or window itself. The name of a
frame is specified by the name attribute of the
<frame> tag. The name of a window is
specified when the window is created with a call to the
Window.open( ) method. If
target specifies the name of a window that does
not exist, the browser automatically opens a new window to display
the URL, and any future links with the same target
name use that freshly created window.

Four special target names are supported. The target named
"_blank" specifies that a new, empty browser
window should be created and used to display the new URL. The target
"_self" is the default; it specifies that the new
URL should be displayed in the same frame or window as the link. The
target "_parent" specifies that the results should
be displayed in the parent frame of the frame that contains the link.
Finally, the "_top" target specifies that the new
URL should be displayed in the topmost frame -- in other words,
all frames should be removed, and the new URL should occupy the
entire browser window.

See Also

Form.target