target = self or target = "the name of the frame" From: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-frame-target 6.16 Frame target names Except for the reserved names listed below, frame target names (%FrameTarget; <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/loosedtd.html#FrameTarget> in the DTD) must begin with an alphabetic character (a-zA-Z). User agents should ignore all other target names. The following target names are reserved and have special meanings. _blank The user agent should load the designated document in a new, unnamed window. _self The user agent should load the document in the same frame as the element that refers to this target. _parent The user agent should load the document into the immediate FRAMESET <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#edef-FRAMESET> parent of the current frame. This value is equivalent to _self if the current frame has no parent. _top The user agent should load the document into the full, original window (thus canceling all other frames). This value is equivalent to _self if the current frame has no parent. Bruce Jarrett-Norton