HTMLAnchorElement: target property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The target property of the HTMLAnchorElement interface is a string that indicates where to display the linked resource.

It reflects the target attribute of the <a> element.

A string representing the target. Its value can be:

The name of a <frame>.
One of the keyword with specific values: _blank, _self, _parent, or _top.

html

<a href="www.example1.com" class="link1" target="_blank">example1</a>

const link = document.querySelector(".link1");
console.log(link.target); // output: "_blank"

Specification
HTML Standard # dom-a-target

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