Last modified: 2008-11-03 07:05:55 UTC
When I am reading a page in Wikipedia I often see a link that I would like to access without losing the page I am currently on. If I had the option to open the link in a new tab I could do that but currently the link function will not permit it. Can this be fixed?
You can do this buy clicking your 3rd button (wheel button) on your mouse.
There is no way to specify "new tab" in HTML, XHTML, or javascript. The closest is a draft property for CSS3 called "target-new" which allows window, tab, or none > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-hyperlinks/ but that is far in the future. The only currently applicable one is target="_blank" (or _new) which is for a new window. This is currently applied in very very few places in mediawiki (for example, in Special:Preferences under =Skins=, the preview links). Now, some browsers can force this into new tabs (such as Opera and newer Firefox), but this is _not_ to be assumed. For the general public, this can be very very annoying. In general, opening new windows sucks, see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2002Apr/0100.html and http://www.uiaccess.com/spawned.html . Most modern browsers will let you easily specify where to open a new link via mouse or keyboard. For example, in Firefox you hold shift while clicking to open a new window, and ctrl to open a new tab. What browser are you using?
