I don't actually know. It's what I was shown, so it's what I do. Generally though, leading underscores often indicate a meta-variable of some kind. Which would make sense in this case: you're referring to the idea of a blank (new) window, not an existing window named "blank".
yes more precisely, <a href="foo.bar.org/baz" target="fubar">link!</a> The values go inside quotes. I generally just make up a name for the target. Something not likely to be used anywhere else. So that when the link is clicked it opens in a new tab instead of replacing your page in the same tab.
It's part of the frames stuff. There are a couple more _foo metas for dealing with frames using target=; _self is just the one that is useful without frames.
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Generally though, leading underscores often indicate a meta-variable of some kind. Which would make sense in this case: you're referring to the idea of a blank (new) window, not an existing window named "blank".
more precisely,
<a href="foo.bar.org/baz" target="fubar">link!</a>
The values go inside quotes. I generally just make up a name for the target. Something not likely to be used anywhere else.
So that when the link is clicked it opens in a new tab instead of replacing your page in the same tab.
I didn't know the underscore-blank gimmick. It looks like a real bastard shoved in despite conventions, but that's not my problem.
I got a perfectly good and functional link, by the way.