[vidyaishaya]

This is the oddest thing -- never seen anything like it.

I designed a website for a client publishing links to off-site articles.
I used <a href="PAGE" target="_blank">ARTICLE</a>
to link to the articles.

The client used Windows XP with IE6. And could NOT click
on any of those links.

All non-targeted links worked. All "new browser window" links
refused to work. Although they worked on other computers of his.
But on his computer, it wouldn't work.

I finally had to stop using the target="_blank" so that he'd
think all was OK and pay the bill.

Weird? Ever hear of anything like this?

Thanks

....Vidya
www.webwisesage.com

[Rockn]

Pop up blockers

[vidyaishaya]

That's a good lead I can investigate with my client.

But I cannot image a pop-up blocker that blocks a window
from a link that someone intentionally clicks on.

That would be a pretty dumb pop-up blocker.

Thanks for your lead.

...Vidya

[Soiled]

it does sound wierd... popup blockers should only block a script.. but who knows, there maybe some wierd setting in IE to disable opening links in new windows.... check the IE options aswell, i wouldnt doubt that theres a check box somewhere.

[bassetman]

<A HREF="wilbe.jpg" target=_blank>

I have mine without the "s on the target part. May want to try that.

[A_erised]

Target should be universal in IE. enclosed in tags it should, I think read

a href="whatyouwantviewed.html"target=_blank

followed by more about what you want viewed followed of course by the tagged /a

Some tags are not recognized in IE, but target should be 'owned' by HTML and work anywhere.

HTML very picky and specific. Good luck!

[erick295]

target="_blank" is an attribute that is recognized by all browsers, and you ARE supposed to have quotes around any attribute, according to W3C standards. It's a browser problem, not a problem with your code. I'm not sure exactly what would be causing it, but it's definitely on his end, not yours.

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by erick295

target="_blank" is an attribute that is recognized by all browsers, and you ARE supposed to have quotes around any attribute, according to W3C standards. It's a browser problem, not a problem with your code. I'm not sure exactly what would be causing it, but it's definitely on his end, not yours.

All I was saying is that what I do works!

[namenotfound]

Does the guy have SP2 (Service Pack 2) on his Windows XP?
SP2 comes with a pop-up blocker for Internet Explorer

But if he had that proble, then a bar would show up on IE asking him if he wanted to allow that site to pop-up, if he sees no bar than it's not the blocker from SP2