Programmatically open new pages on Tabs

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Ricardo Vega picture Ricardo Vega · Jan 9, 2009 · Viewed 205.7k times · Source

I'm trying to "force" Safari or IE7 to open a new page using a new tab.

Programmatically I mean something like:

window.open('page.html','newtaborsomething');

Answer

Eineki picture Eineki · Jan 9, 2009

You can, in Firefox it works, add the attribute target="_newtab" to the anchor to force the opening of a new tab.

<a href="some url" target="_newtab">content of the anchor</a>

In javascript you can use

window.open('page.html','_newtab');

Said that, I partially agree with Sam. You shouldn't force user to open new pages or new tab without showing them a hint on what is going to happen before they click on the link.

Let me know if it works on other browser too (I don't have a chance to try it on other browser than Firefox at the moment).

Edit: added reference for ie7 Maybe this link can be useful
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/ieextensiondevelopment/thread/951b04e4-db0d-4789-ac51-82599dc60405/

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