Just a test

[alicebentley]

Because I want to see if things work like I think they do when I post a link here.

Shelf Life, edited by Greg Ketter

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[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

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.

[erik]

See above; it turns out if you target "_blank" you get a new tab that is not named anything. Which avoids the name collision issue.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

thanks!
I didn't know the underscore-blank gimmick. It looks like a real bastard shoved in despite conventions, but that's not my problem.

[erik]

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.