i want a link to open in a new window, it's my web2messenger status image link, and i want it to open in a new window when someone clicks on it (it's not on a forum btw ) problem is i have no idea what to put into the code to make it do that. i'd assume it's in the <a> part of the code?

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<a href="link" target="_blank">

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thank you kindly

I don't know if this is just for you special purpose (it sounds like it, because you're talking about some sort of app), but I think it's evil for the designer to make a page open in a new window. If I want to open it in a new window, I will do that myself. Useless new windows opening clutter my desktop when I'm not using multiple desktops. Not just technical people like me hate this, it also confuses people who are new to computers, like my mom. She wants to use the back button, but because some websites open in a new window, this doesn't work. And when she's done viewing whatever she wanted to view, she'll close the current window and then responds like "huh, there's another window here?".

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Originally posted by PlusFan
I don't know if this is just for you special purpose (it sounds like it, because you're talking about some sort of app), but I think it's evil for the designer to make a page open in a new window. If I want to open it in a new window, I will do that myself. Useless new windows opening clutter my desktop when I'm not using multiple desktops. Not just technical people like me hate this, it also confuses people who are new to computers, like my mom. She wants to use the back button, but because some websites open in a new window, this doesn't work. And when she's done viewing whatever she wanted to view, she'll close the current window and then responds like "huh, there's another window here?".

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And if I wanted to use tabs?...

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Originally posted by PlusFan
And if I wanted to use tabs?...

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And if I wanted to use tabs?...

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I think theres either a feature in firefox or an extension that forces all target _blank links to open in a new tab and not window. And im sure opera would have a similar feature.

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yeh but the problem was that the website that i was puttin it on used frames or something and it kept opening the web2messenger page in a tiny little box that you couldne see what the whole thing was about. i was making it open in a new window so that whoever clicked on it could actually see the window in the frst place

You can also use the target function to target it to another frame, instead of target="_blank" use target="name", where name is the name of the frame

that wouldnt have worked, it's hard to explain, it's not my website i was puttin it on so yeh, its done now and  it works just the way i want it and its not gunna change