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Asked: 2026-06-01T12:59:14+00:00

I was looking into a solution for opening a page in new tab and

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I was looking into a solution for opening a page in new tab and then i landed on the CSS-3 property target-new

It states that: “If a user wanted to have new windows open in new tabs instead, she could use the following user style sheet to do so:

*{ target-new: tab ! important }”

I have couple of questions on it:

  • How it functions internally?
  • Why we don’t have a property like target=”_tab” in html5 specification but had this property as opening a link in new tab doesn’t have any direct relation with Presentation?
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    How it functions internally?

    No browser has implemented this yet.

    Why we don’t have a property like target="_tab" in html5 specification but had this property as opening a link in new tab doesn’t have any direct relation with Presentation?

    target=_blank is still allowed because of backwards compatibility. Introducing new reserved target values, like _tab, wouldn’t work the same across browsers.

    IMHO, the decision should be left to the user, and web authors shouldn’t force target=_blank or target-new: tab|window.

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