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Asked: 2026-06-12T01:44:16+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Is it alright use to target=_blank in HTML5? I have this. <a

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Is it alright use to target=_blank in HTML5?

I have this.

<a href="#foo" class="external" target="_blank" title="foo">www.foo.com</a>

Previosuly the target="_blank" used to retrun a validation error. If I remmber correctly it used to state a deperecated error with the doctypes prior to html5. However in html5 doctypes this is no longer a validation error and therfore javascript was used instead.

Does it mean it’s no longer deprecated and I do not need javascript any more to achive this functionality?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes.

    The target attribute on the a element was deprecated in a previous version of HTML, but is no longer deprecated, as it useful in Web applications, particularly in combination with the iframe element.

    http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/a.html

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