Fixing target=”_blank” for W3C compliance using Javascript / jQuery
HTML 4.0 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict recommendations of the W3C no longer include the target attribute of the <a> tag. The Transitional versions of the specifications still include it, but by definition, these specs are on the way out. So this means you can’t use target=”_blank” for your <a> tags if you want to …