Open up in a tab not a window

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Open url in new tab using javascript

I'm trying to make it so that something opens up in a tab, not a window. As far as I can tell, this is set by browser preference. Is there no real way to override this? I understand you can use window.open, but is this subject to browser preference? I'm currently using target="_blank".

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/4907843/330494 – Barlow Tucker Apr 17 '12 at 17:08 — Barlow Tucker, Apr 17 '12 at 17:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '12 at 17:05

You can do this with the following CSS:

a {
    target-name: new;
    target-new: tab;
}

See this example (please not it does not work because jsFiddle does not support tabs. It is merely for demonstration purposes)

As simple one line solution:

<a href="http://www.bbc.com" target="new" style="target-name:new;target-new:tab">
    Text
</a>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '12 at 17:11

For now, there is really no way for you to have it open in a new tab instead of a new window. It is, as you said, a browser preference.

As to jacktheripper's response. It looks like the target-name property is not supported in any major browser*.

*CSS3 target-name Property

Open up in a tab not a window

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