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not able to open links in a new tab

Answer 1

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trigger('click') just doesn't work. I had the same problem recently and resolved it by using click().

Nissan Fan 2010-03-09 21:05:11

click() is also not working

Nadal 2010-03-09 21:10:50

I will pull the code later today. If it wasn't click() then it was OnClick(); or some minor variant. I'll post soon.

Nissan Fan 2010-03-09 21:37:50

Answer 2

+1 A:

You can do like this, ok you'll have problems with popup blockers but if this is only for debugging purposes you can simply disable blocker and that's it.

a = $('a');
$.each(a, function(i,val){
  window.open(val, '_blank');
});

Here is the whole code and it worked for me. Actually I didn't test it on a server, just checked html file on my desktop. Firefox doesn't allow popups to display even I said to display popups but IE has option to allow popups for local files and it works, opens two windows for google and yahoo.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;aa&lt;/a&gt;
        <a href="http://www.yahoo.com"&gt;bb&lt;/a&gt;
        <script>
            $(document).ready(function() {
                    a = $('a');
                    $.each(a, function(i,val){
                    window.open(val, '_blank');  
                });
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Ergec 2010-03-09 21:21:05

not sure why but this solution is not working.

Nadal 2010-03-09 21:23:50

@dorelal, I updated my answer.

Ergec 2010-03-09 21:32:00

should be `window.open(val.attr('href'), '_blank')`

Felix 2010-03-09 21:35:22

@Felix, val has href value by default from function.

Ergec 2010-03-09 21:41:35

@Ergec, wrong. `val` is the current HTML element. I was wrong, too, that line should be `window.open(val.href, '_blank')`, since val is not a jQuery instance. **Note:** $.each cycles through everything in the `a` array, which is an array of HTML elements.

Felix 2010-03-09 22:57:47

@Ergec, I think Firefox didn't work for a reason. I also think IE is doing its usual weirdness accepting `HTMLAnchorElement` s for `window.open()`.

Felix 2010-03-09 23:02:27

@Felix: If I do alert(val) and alert(val.href) both popups the same result, the URL.

Ergec 2010-03-10 06:17:30

That's because alert calls `.toString()` on the parameter before displaying the alert box. `window.open()` shouldn't do that. And it doesn't, on compliant browsers such as Firefox. On IE, on the other hand..

Felix 2010-03-10 17:08:05

Answer 3

A:

This code works for me:

$("a").each(function(i, val) { window.open(val.href); });

However, Chrome blocks this code because it tries to open some 20 popups at once, but I can see that it does indeed try to open them.

Felix 2010-03-09 23:00:56

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