Comments on: target=”_blank” vs. target=”_new”

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:47:22 +0000

Yup, you should use target=”_blank”, the underscore is important.

By: Raptorak

Raptorak — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:48:43 +0000

Thanks for the explanation of the difference! I’ve been using “new” because I just assumed that meant “open a new window.” I had no idea what blank meant. So based on my understanding now, if we want to link to a few sites in a row (for people to read) it may be better to go with blank, whereas if it’s just one link we should go with new?

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By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:23:23 +0000

It doesn’t matter which one you use when you’re talking about opening one window. But things can get confusing if you need to open multiple windows on a page since browsers treat “_new” as a window name.

By: David

David — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:02:47 +0000

_new can be confusing to the user. If windows are deleted after use, then it is not confusing.
_blank can create a lot of opened windows. Closing the windows after use is the solution. But if windows are closed after use, then _new works just as nicely.
On balance, I prefer to launch new windows with _new.

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Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:50:44 +0000

[...] Here’s an awesome explanation: Using _blank as a target value will spawn a new window every time while using _new will only spawn one new window and every link clicked with a target value of _new will replace the page loaded in the previously spawned window. Try it out for yourself: [...]