Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-14 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 13 Nov 2006, at 21:45:07, Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/13/06, Chris Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't suppose there's any reason why I shouldn't keep coding to xhtml 1.0 but specify html 4.01 when I need to use the target attribute. That might be a good idea; on the *one* page

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread Donna Jones
I have a little online store paying through Paypal, using their shopping cart. So the buy button opens up a new window and you're into Paypal. Hi - i've been looking at PayPal lately and thought i haven't done a cart I've seen that PayPal automatically sets the target in the form. If I was

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Price
On Monday, November 13, 2006, at 08:02 am, Donna Jones wrote: Hi - i've been looking at PayPal lately and thought i haven't done a cart I've seen that PayPal automatically sets the target in the form. If I was setting one up, I would just take that out (test to make sure it still worked, I

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:19AM +, Chris Price wrote: I don't suppose there's any reason why I shouldn't keep coding to xhtml 1.0 but specify html 4.01 when I need to use the target attribute. You seem to be confusing HTML/XHTML with Strict/Transitional. XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 are

RE: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread michael.brockington
What is the point of leaving out the 'target' attribute if you are then going to put it in via JavaScript? If it shouldn't be there then don't use it - sneaking it in via a script seems rather pointless to me. Mike -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Chris Price wrote: I don't want to start a rerun of the javascript fudging standards argument but does anyone have the url of a favourite article on the subject? That's my favourite one, but I'm a little bit biased :) http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/popup_window_with_no_extra_markup.asp ---

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Woznica
Indeed, probably so. It was just a suggestion. A - Andy Woznica Actofdesign http://www.actofdesign.com On 11/13/06 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the point of leaving out the 'target' attribute if you are then going to put it in

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-13 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/13/06, Chris Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't suppose there's any reason why I shouldn't keep coding to xhtml 1.0 but specify html 4.01 when I need to use the target attribute. That might be a good idea; on the *one* page that uses the target attribute, use the HTML 4.01 doctype

[WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Chris Price
Hi I have a little online store paying through Paypal, using their shopping cart. So the buy button opens up a new window and you're into Paypal. Unfortunately the bit of html for the form uses 'target' to open up the window and I'm coding in xhtml strict. I'm using onclick=newWindow()

RE: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I'm looking for a simple bit of javascript to do the same for the form, something like form.target = window.open() Hi Chris, You could create a javascript function and then call it from within the action attribute of the form tag: script function test() { window.open(...); } /script

RE: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Robin @ Xplore.net
: Monday, 13 November 2006 6:58 a.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form Hi I have a little online store paying through Paypal, using their shopping cart. So the buy button opens up a new window and you're into Paypal. Unfortunately the bit of html

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Robin @ Xplore.net wrote: a href=http://google.com/; onclick=window.open(this.href); return false; A Test Link /a Doesn't answer the actual question about how to do it in forms, though... P -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.):

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/12/06, Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a simple bit of javascript to do the same for the form, something like form.target = window.open() ... My other question would be do you really need to open a separate window to go to PayPal? I haven't used this feature,

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Christian Montoya wrote: Otherwise, a great solution is to stop trying to fake the standards and just use HTML 4.01... it's clean, well-supported, and it allows targets. XHTML 1.0 allows the target attribute too in the Transitional DOCTYPE. Don't confuse the syntax of HTML and XHTML with the

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/12/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: Otherwise, a great solution is to stop trying to fake the standards and just use HTML 4.01... it's clean, well-supported, and it allows targets. XHTML 1.0 allows the target attribute too in the Transitional DOCTYPE.

Re: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Andy Woznica
Chris, I had exactly the same issue and this was the solution I found. Essentially it's a script to open all external links in a new window with a slight modification to recognise a substring in a form tag and do likewise. Anyway, here's the JavaScript: // JavaScript Document function