Html Target Attribute not supported

Question

I was just on w3Schools looking at target and found that it is no longer supported by any of the major browsers. A brief google search did not reveal the reason for this? Should

Answer 1

It is supported by most major browsers. It's just not part of the strict HTML specifications from the W3C. However, browsers implement it even when using a strict doctype. This fact is sometimes used to emulate its behaviour with JavaScript while keeping HTML that still validates:

    This is an external link

And:

var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i=0, len=links.length; i

In transitional doctypes, no workaround is required.