What if you want to force the browser to open another window and load
that new URL in the new window? HTML enables you to specify the target for your links.
Targets are most often used in conjunction with frames??”that is, you can make a link in one
frame open a file in another. For more information about this technique, see Chapter 16.
Targets do more than just display a page in a certain frame. Take a look at one of the HTML predefined targets
used in a situation where you want to load another URL into a new window.
To specify a new browser window as the target for a link, follow these steps:
1. Select the text or image you want to designate as your new link.
2. In the Property inspector, enter the URL into the Link text box. After you??™ve entered a link, the
target option becomes active.
3. In the Target drop-down list, select _blank, as shown in Figure 10-8. You can also type it in the
list box. Either way, Dreamweaver inserts a _blank option in the Target list box. Now, when your
link is activated, the browser spawns a new window and loads the referenced link into it. The
user has both windows available.
FIGURE 10-8
With the Target attribute, you can force a user??™s browser to open a separate window to display
a specific link.
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