I tried it but both shows similar work i.e. it opens new tab but what is the main difference between them.
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Click here to go to youtube
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Click here to go to yahoo
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I am pretty sure that _main is not an actual attribute for HTML hyperlinks. You may notice that _anytext would also open the link in a new tab, but is not an official attribute. Use _blank for this case.
Here are the accepted attributes, listed at w3schools:
_self - Default. Opens the document in the same window/tab as it was clicked
_blank - Opens the document in a new window or tab
_parent - Opens the document in the parent frame
_top - Opens the document in the full body of the window
_main is not an HTML attribute, for opening your specified link in a new tab use _blank.
Youtube
Yahoo
FMI: Visit the below link:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-a-target-html-attribute-explained/
I have an <object> which shows a table from an external website. The problem is that when you click on a link in the table, the site opens in the <object> window.
Is it possible that I click on a link, and the site opens normally and not in the <object> window?
No.
It would require that the page in the frame set the link targets to _top or _parent. By default a link will open in the same frame.
Assuming you don't control the page loaded into the frame, you have no way of changing the link target (and the same origin policy prevents you changing it with JS).
How can I make it so a link will not only open a new page in an iframe, but also redirect the webpage to the top of the screen? if possible using just html/css code.
Not possible with just HTML or CSS. If you are wanting to open an iframe on the same page as the link that you clicked, you would have to create a script that dynamically fills the scr attribute of the iframe.
If you are trying to create a link that opens a new page that has an iframe, then you set the target attribute of the tag to _blank like so:
<a href="" target="_blank">
iframes will navigate to a page specified by their src attribute. To get an iframe to go to a specific point in the page without scripting, there would have to be an element on the page the iframe is going to that has an id. You would then specify this id in the address of you iframe's src attribute like so:
<iframe src="http://www.example.com/#idyouaretargeting"></iframe>
I am working on a new home for my browser.
When the src changes of the iframe (click search or something) I want to leave my site and go to where the iframe is going. How do I do this?
edit:// example: http://imgur.com/OvnCz.jpg
Just put a target attribute on the link with a value of _top, like this:
Google
That tells the browser to open the link in the top-most frame, that is the whole browser window. More information can be found here
This is a line for a hyperlink in HTML:
Starfall
Thus, if I click on "Starfall" my browser - I am using FireFox - will take me to that new page and the contents of my window will change. I wonder, how can I do this in HTML so that the new page is opened in a new window instead of changing the previous one? Is there such a way in HTML?
And if yes, is there a way to open the requested page in another tab (not another window) of my browser?
Starfall
Whether it opens in a tab or another window though is up to how a user has configured her browser.
Simplest way is to add a target tag.
Starfall
Use a different value for the target attribute for each link if you want them to open in different tabs, the same value for the target attribute if you want them to replace the other ones.
use target="_blank"
<a target='_blank' href="http://www.starfall.com/">Starfall</a>
You should be able to add
target="_blank"
like
Starfall
The target attribute is your best way of doing this.
<a href="http://www.starfall.com" target="_blank">
will open it in a new tab or window. As for which, it depends on the users settings.
<a href="http://www.starfall.com" target="_self">
is default. It makes the page open in the same tab (or iframe, if that's what you're dealing with).
The next two are only good if you're dealing with an iframe.
<a href="http://www.starfall.com" target="_parent">
will open the link in the iframe that the iframe that had the link was in.
<a href="http://www.starfall.com" target="_top">
will open the link in the tab, no matter how many iframes it has to go through.
the target = _blank is will open in new tab or windows based on browser setting.
To force a new window use javascript onclick all three parts are needed. url, a name, and window width and height size or it will just open in a new tab.
<a onclick="window.open('http://www.starfall.com/','name','width=600,height=400')">Starfall</a>
You can also accomplish this by adding the following to your page's header:
<base target="_blank">
This will make ALL links on your page open in a new tab
Since web is evolving quickly, some things changes with time. For security issues, you might want to use the rel="noopener" attribute in conjuncture with your target="_blank".
Like stated in Google Dev Documentation, the other page can access your window object with the window.opener property. Your external link should looks like this now:
Starfall
below example with target="_blank" works for Safari and Mozilla
<a href="http://www.starfall.com" `target="_blank"`>
Using target="new"worked for Chrome
<a href="http://www.starfall.com" `target="new"`>