JavaScript (JS) target Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) target Example

JavaScript (JS) target Example: HTML DOM Objects – Anchor Object – JavaScript (JS) target Example

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other Anchor Object Properties and Methods

Prerequistes:

Syntax: anchorObject.target=_blank|_parent|_self|_top – Allows you to retrieve or assign target window for anchor objects.

Restrictions: None

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for hrefuage
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DOMAnchor”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DOMAnchor
  6. Add New subfolder to “DOMAnchor” subfolder named “AnchorObjectProperties”
    • Right-click subfolder named “DOMAnchor” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: AnchorObjectProperties
  7. Add HTML Page Named target to AnchorObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click AnchorObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be target
  8. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page target.htm
  9. Right-click on HTML page target.htm and select view in browser
View Example In Browser
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>IdealProgrammer.com: target </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
   Here is a table of values for target:
    * _blank  - the target URL will open in a new window
    * _self   - the target URL will open in the same frame as it was clicked
    * _parent - the target URL will open in the parent frameset
    * _top    - the target URL will open in the full body of the window
 
    -->
 
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <a href="http://www.google.com" id="idGoogle" target="_blank">Google</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" id="idYahoo" target="_self">Yahoo</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://idealprogrammer.com" id="idIdealProgrammer" target="_parent">IdealProgrammer</a><br /><br />
      <a href="http://myqol.com" id="idProgressMonitor" target="_top">ProgressMonitor</a><br /><br />
 
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // target
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    anchorObject.target=_blank|_parent|_self|_top  Allows you to retrieve or
       //               assign a target window for anchorObject
 
       // Two ways to retrieve target  
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
            myObject=document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
            document.write("Google - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.target);
            document.write("<br />");
      //   2. GetElementById
            document.write("Yahoo - Using getElementById: ");
            document.write(document.getElementById('idYahoo').target);
 
            document.write("<br /><br />");
       // Two ways to assign target
 
            //   1. GetElementById
            myThirdElement = document.getElementById('idIdealProgrammer');
            myThirdElement.target = "_top";
            document.write("<br />IdealProgrammer target changed to _top: ", myThirdElement.target);
 
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
            myFourthElement = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[3];
            myFourthElement.target = "_parent";
            document.write("<br />ProgressMonitor target changed to _parent: ", myFourthElement.target)
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>