Confirmation box not working on a link to another tab

Question

heres the code of my link confirmation to another tab:

<a href="linksite" onclick="linktab()" target="_tab">Go to link</a>

 <script type'text/javascript'>
       function linktab()
       {
        return confirm('Are you sure you want to go to the link?');
       };
       </script>

i think the problem is the Target=TAB but i dont know how would i do that without closing the other site for loading purposes.

@arun yes tab on another browser, – user2609718 Jul 24 '13 at 06:54 — user2609718, Jul 24 '13 at 06:54

David Hedlund · Answer 1 · 2013-07-24T06:55:19.157

You want to use onclick, not onload.

You also must make sure that your onclick itself returns the value returned from the function:

 onclick="return linktab()"

Otherwise your onclick will just invoke a function, but disregard what it returns.

Demo

Note that valid values for target are*:

Any string, with the following restrictions:

must not start with a "_" character

must be at least one character long

any case-insensitive match for one of the following literal strings: "_blank", "_self", "_parent", or "_top".

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Just remove target='_tab' and in the confirmation you can do

if(confirm('sure?')){var win=window.open(url, '_blank');win.focus();}

You can study more from this question, very interesting! open-url-in-new-tab-using-javascript

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Jul 24 '13 at 06:48

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '13 at 06:51

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Instead of onload="linktab()" use onclick="return linktab()

answered Jul 24 '13 at 06:51

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oh my bad, it was on "onclick".. xD i mistyped – user2609718 Jul 24 '13 at 06:53

Confirmation box not working on a link to another tab

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