Programmatically open new pages on Tabs

Question

Hi, I'm trying to "force" Safari or IE7 to open a new page USING A NEW TAB!.

Sorry, It seems like an impossible task :( Programmatically I mean something like:

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

Thanks!

Answer 1

It's up to the user whether they want to use new tabs or new windows, it isn't the business of the developer to modify this behaviour. I do not think you can do it.

Pet peeve of mine - I hate it when sites force me to open in a new window / tab - I am quite capable of making that decision for myself. Particularly when they do it in javascript - that is really unhelpful.

Answer 2

I am not sure I get the point - are you developing an app, which works with IE and you want to open each new page on new tab? Or you just want to set up the IE to open new tab when clicked on a link? Or are you creating any site with more links and you want them to open separately? Pls make it clearlier.

Answer 3

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 appen 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 firedox 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/

Answer 4

You can't directly control this, because it's an option controlled by Internet Explorer users.

Opening pages using Window.open with a different window name will open in a new browser window like a popup, OR open in a new tab, if the user configured the browser to do so.

Answer 5

I found out in Chrome,

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

will only work once.

If you run this script again on the same page, it'll only change the new tab's URL that you've created before but not opening another new tab.

Answer 6

I said,
In Google Chrome, when I run it 2 times, it'll still only open 1 new tab.
It changes the new tab's URL that created before instead.

Answer 7

a href=http://www.google.com target="_self">New Tab Example

Works in IE7 (note: I left off the opening "<" at the beginning of the code so you can view the text version of the code (add the "<" to work in your code).

Regards,

Glenn