target _blank question

[titanium]

I have the following code for a widget:

<form action="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/sea...widget_searchbox&utm_campaign=widget_tracking" method="post"><table style="font-size: 10px; border: 1px solid black; background: #242C72 url('http://dictionary.cambridge.org/external/images/sbr.gif?version=2014-12-17-0914') no-repeat top right;" width="150px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/" style="display:block; background: transparent url('http://dictionary.cambridge.org/external/images/sbl.gif?version=2014-12-17-0914') no-repeat 5px 6px; height: 32px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td width="68px" style="padding: 4px;"><input name="q" size="8" style="display:block; height: 100%;width: 100%; font-size:10px " type="text"/></td><td width="50px" style="padding: 0 4px 0 0;"><input width="100%" style="display:block; float: right; background: #92AE2E url('http://dictionary.cambridge.org/external/images/sbb.gif?version=2014-12-17-0914') repeat-x; border: 1px solid green; font-size:10px; padding: 2px 0;" type="submit" border="0" value="Look it up"/></td></tr></tbody></table></form>

I want the browser to open in a new tab but I can't figure out where to put the target _blank bit.
Thanks!

 

[jacobc]

Are you wanting a new tab to be opened for http://dictionary.cambridge.org/?

 

[titanium]

yes

 

[jacobc]

Cool, so between change:

a href

to:

a target="_blank" href

that should do it.

Regards,

Jacob

 

[titanium]

thanks, but it still opens up in the same tab. Is it possible that cambridge.org have control over how it opens?

 

[jacobc]

You got a link to this?

 

[titanium]

http://realenglishschool.eu/en/
Widget is bottom left.

 

[fisicx]

Works fine for me.

What doesn't open in the new tab is the 'Look it up'. Add the target="_blank" to the form action to fix this.

 

[jacobc]

Yep, as fisicx says, you need to add it on the form action, not the hyperlink.

Regards,

Jacob

 

[titanium]

Excellent! Thanks very much. Sorry I didn't explain it well - it didn't occur to me that anyone would click without looking up a word!

 

[ServWise]

I should point out that target="_blank" may open in the new window OR new tab depending on how the viewers browser in configured. I'm pretty sure you can't control this.

 

[titanium]

I should point out that target="_blank" may open in the new window OR new tab depending on how the viewers browser in configured. I'm pretty sure you can't control this.

That doesn't matter - it'll be going on articles written for students of English who might want to look up the meaning of words. If it opens in the same tab it will disturb their reading of the lesson. Thanks though!