On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:37:50PM +0000, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On 25 Mar 2013, at 16:35, "Ford, Mike" <m.f...@leedsmet.ac.uk> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Paul M Foster [mailto:pa...@quillandmouse.com] > >> Sent: 25 March 2013 16:09 > >> > >> This behavior of the browser actually conforms to the standard as > >> far as > >> I know. The "target" attribute is attached only to the <a> tag, > >> according to w3schools.com > > > > Actually, the W3C HTML 4.01 Recommendation says: > > > > target = frame-target [CI] > > > > This attribute specifies the name of a frame where a document > > is to be opened. > > > > By assigning a name to a frame via the name attribute, authors > > can refer to it as the "target" of links defined by other > > elements. The target attribute may be set for elements that > > create links (A, LINK), image maps (AREA), and forms (FORM). > > > > In the current HTML5 draft, target is explicitly a permitted > > attribute of the form tag -- although I believe it was originally > > marked as deprecated. > > Indeed. In fact w3schools.com is known to be a very unreliable source of > information these days. My advice would be to avoid it at all costs! > > http://w3fools.com/
Interesting. I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the info. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
