February 5th, 2008 by Tom

Dreamweaver Tip – Open Link In a New Window

Dreamweaver provided a tool for creating links on your web document but you may not know we can create links that can open in a new window browser when visitor of our site clicking on it.

The tool that can help us create links to open in a new window is a target box under the link box. you can control link in 4 methods.

1. target _blank, 2. target _parent, 3. target _top, 4. target _self.

Dreamweaver tip - Open Link In a New Window


How to use it
The target box will active only when you create a hyperlink.

target = ” _blank” = Open a link in a new browser window.
target = ” _parent” = Open a link inside a frame (see example)
target = “_self” = Open a link in the same browser window, this is a default value when you don’t assign target value.
target = ” _top” = Open a link in the same window and skip a frame set (if you use frame)

The HTML Code
You can code in html like code below

<a href="http://www.google.com" target = "_blank">Google</a>

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15 Responses to “Dreamweaver Tip – Open Link In a New Window”

  1. thank you very much for the detail explanation on how to open a link in a new page, rather then leaving my site . I have done many link exchanges, that i see people wind up leaving my site to see the sites i promote.. then i loose the customer. anyway thank you!! my site is http://www.a1limobus.com if you have any ideas we are open to all suggestions!!!!

    wayne

  2. Pat Coleman says :
    November 6th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    thank you. i will try your suggestion. It’s for a school project.

  3. thanx a lot,
    you´ve been of great help today! :D

  4. You are a star. Simple and effective. Thanks.

  6. this is a great way of keeping people from accidently straying away from my storyteling site, keep up the good work!

  7. This was very helpful. Thank you! I have been searching the web for something that is explained easily. This was perfect. Thanks!

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  9. THANK YOU VERY MUCH THIS HELPED ME VERY MUCH THAN YOU VERY MUCH

  10. thank you very much for that all the other websites i have visited took the long route round, but you have explain it perfectly.

    many thanks

  11. Thank You,Thank You.
    I have been searching for this information all over.
    You have made it so easy , to do and understand.

  12. What do I do when it’s a strict xhtml document?
    I can’t get my page validated when I use the old markup target!
    thanks

  13. Doesn’t always work.. for example: I make a behaviour for mousemove to open a URL and i want it to open the url in a new window. How does that work because i can’t figure it out…

  14. thanks big time, i was having trouble getting a hyperlinked picture to act this way and i just added that bit of code following the quote of the link. thanks again

  15. this is very helpful! thank you very much!!!!

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