The target parent HTML attribute

The target parent HTML attribute

I love HTML. Love it so much I like to write about it in its purest form. Even attributes people don’t think about or won’t dedicate a single post too. I can’t count how many times I’ve used HTML’s target attribute in my development career. Everyone’s talking about concepts, frameworks, paradigm shifts and all that. I’d like to talk about the target attribute.

_parent isn’t used all too often in my experience, so I’m going to use it in my example below.


<a href="/some-page.html" title="The Title of this Hyperink" target="_parent">HyperLink</a>

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