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Thread ID: 87549	2008-02-25 22:29:00	Front Page - how to get a web page to open in a new window?	stuffed (1469)	Press F1

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643533	2008-02-25 22:29:00	Am not into web page stuff (the brain is full enough!) but a simple question – when creating a web link in a page – how do you get it to open in a new window?! www.arrownet.co.nz Using Front Page 2003 Thanks	stuffed (1469)
643534	2008-02-25 23:04:00	Find the hyperlink in your code and add this to it: target="_blank" In other words, to make this one open in a new window <a href=" . mywebsite_etc . com/>" target="_blank">www . mywebsite_etc . com My web site! </a> Add the target="_blank" attribute (with a space at the start) <a href=" . mywebsite_etc . com/ target="_blank"> My web site! </a>" target="_blank">www . mywebsite_etc . com/ target="_blank"> My web site! < To do it in FrontPage when you are making the link, it is done like this (I think - I dont use FrontPage myself) 1 . Highlight the text you want to use as the hyperlink . 2 . Press CTRL+K to open the "Add Hyperlink" window . 3 . Create the hyperlink as usual . (Don't click OK when you are done . ) 4 . Click the "Target Frame . . . " button . 5 . From the list of "Common targets", select "New Window" . 6 . FrontPage will automatically change the "Target setting" text box to "_blank" . 7 . Click OK . 8 . Click OK .	bevy121 (117)
643535	2008-02-25 23:32:00	BTW - I noticed you have some web pages with spaces in the names . It's generaly good practice to not have spaces or strange characters in url's . It can cause problems with things sometimes . . . You'll notice the "%20" thats the browser automaticly has added - but not all programes handle the spaces as easily . much better to use an underscore instead of a space . So for instance your file named "We are . htm" (with a space) would be better as "We_are . htm" Of course, this is just suggestion - and spaces do seem to be handled much better than they were, but still have the potential to cause problems sometimes :)	bevy121 (117)
643536	2008-02-26 00:13:00	Hi there and a huge thanks for this - guess never too old to learn! Cheers	stuffed (1469)
643537	2008-02-26 00:52:00	BTW - I noticed you have some web pages with spaces in the names . It's generaly good practice to not have spaces or strange characters in url's . It can cause problems with things sometimes . . . You'll notice the "%20" thats the browser automaticly has added - but not all programes handle the spaces as easily . much better to use an underscore instead of a space . So for instance your file named "We are . htm" (with a space) would be better as "We_are . htm" Of course, this is just suggestion - and spaces do seem to be handled much better than they were, but still have the potential to cause problems sometimes :)I assume that advice applies to filenames too?? Like embedded JPEGs or documents?	johcar (6283)
643538	2008-02-26 02:00:00	I assume that advice applies to filenames too?? Like embedded JPEGs or documents? Applies to database tables, and field alias's too - it's just good practice, as Bevy suggests :thumbs:	nofam (9009)
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