Target attribute not doing what my book says it should

[rlingen]

I want to have a link open in a second browser window (not frame). Then when I go back to window #1, choose another link from the list, I want it to open in Window #2 again (and not ANOTHER new window). In other words, I want a list of links in window #1 and want them all to open in window #2.

My favorite reference "Web design in a nutshell" says to use:

<A HREF=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/&quot;[/URL] TARGET=&quot;display&quot;>...</A>

i.e. naming the second window "display". This works perfectly with Netscape, but IE 5.0 creates a new window for every link used, even when the first "display" window is still open.

Is there a fix, or is this another annoying shortcoming of IE ?

Roy

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Did you name the 2nd windown display.html?? the target will find the display and open the page in that window... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[Jonax]

did you NAME your window in the frameset?

ie:

<frame src=display.html name='display'>

???

 

[rlingen]

Sorry, you guys are both missing the point. There is no frameset, I'm not using frames. The pages that are being opened are not necessarily my pages - they could be pages on another site - I have no control over the content. The links that are being opened could be anything.

I repeat that Netscape does this exactly according to the &quot;textbook&quot; I have. If I use TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot; , it opens a new browser window each time, but if I use TARGET=&quot;anyname&quot; it will open a new browser window the first time, but then will direct any other links with that target name to the same browser window.

IE 5.0 treats every TARGET=&quot;anyname&quot; as though it were a TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot; , i.e. it opens ANOTHER new window each time.

Roy

 

[Jonax]

Check out the window.open-thingy - If i'm not mistaken you can name your window, which should do the trick...