Help with XHTML and targeting frames

Zemus · May 26, 2004

Oh man, I've been trying to figure this out for hours. And I'll be honest, I'm not very good at this lol. I have a website that I just converted to XHTML, everything works great, even the frames. But my side menu frame won't convert to XHTML Strict!

This is a sample of my page,

<a href="main.html" target="right">Home Page</a>
<a href="aboutus.html" target="right">About Us</a>
<a href="mission.html" target="right">Mission</a>
<a href="members.html" target="right">Members</a>
<a href="links.html" target="right">Links</a>

It works perfectly in XHTML Transitional...but I need to convert it to Strict...and it won't validate in Strict because I guess XHTML Strict does not accept the target thing. I have no idea what I'm doing...please, someone, anyone, help a dummy out. Thanks.

Vragabond · May 27, 2004

As far as I know you should use the frameset doctype when using frames:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">[/URL]

In XHTML 1.0 Strict there is no target attribute for links because there is no need to target links anywhere in a non-framed page. That is why you have a special doctype for frames.

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Help with XHTML and targeting frames

Zemus

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