4 This answer is not useful Save this answer. Show activity on this post. You have to escape all characters that can be used in a URI In modern browsers you only need to escape the # character in SVG

target="_blank" which opens the anchor in a new window(which has been redirected to tabs by browser settings usually)

Instead if this anchor was nested in frames it would open in a sandbox mode of sorts, meaning only in that frame.

such as DOIs, which might be assigned by, for example, “crossref” or “figshare”