Hi all,
I am trying to open a location in new window(tab) using window.open. It is not working in chrome. First I tried with window.open(url,name), this did not work, however this works in every other browser. Then I used something like this,
var w = window.open("about:blank");
w.opener = null;
w.document.location = url;
This opens the url in same tab but not in separate tab.
Please help.
Do it like this
window.open( url, "_blank" );
Remember, the 2nd parameter is analogous to an anchor tag's target attribute.
Are you sure your popup is not being blocked? Most popup windows that didn't happen in response to a user event will get blocked. I typed window.open("google.com", "_blank") into the console and I got the blocked window on the url bar
Try this. Works in IE8, fails in FF when popups are blocked
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(typeof HTMLElement!='undefined'&&!HTMLElement.prototype.click)
HTMLElement.prototype.click=function(){ // event by Jason Karl Davis
var evt = this.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents');
evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, this.ownerDocument.defaultView, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
this.dispatchEvent(evt);
}
function loadAndClick(url,target) {
var lnk = document.createElement("a");
lnk.href=url;
lnk.target=target||"_blank"
lnk.id="myLink"
lnk.onclick=function() {
var w = window.open(this.href,this.target);
return (w)?false:true;
}
document.body.appendChild(lnk);
document.getElementById('myLink').click();
// lnk.click();
}
window.onload=function() { // or call getURL("javascript:loadAndClick('http://www.google.com')");
loadAndClick("http://www.google.com");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>