Can I force click on hyperlink to open in new tab when click on link

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Can I force click on hyperlink to open in new page when click on link?

My page is part of a frameset, and links to one site has changed so it prevents the link working if comes form a frameset, but its fine if user does does cntl-click to open page in new tab.

But user doesn't know that so I want a usual click to open in new tab as well to workaround this issue.

I think its a setting users do in their browsers and you cannot force somebody if they don't have the browser-settings activated. Some people turn it off for security reasons and I don't think there is a workaround. — hansTheFranz, Jul 11 '17 at 09:20
Possible duplicate of [How to open link in new tab on html?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17711146/how-to-open-link-in-new-tab-on-html) — Hugues M., Jul 11 '17 at 20:17

Jeffrey Roosendaal · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-04T13:58:45.313

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With just HTML:

<a href="www.targetpage.com" target="_blank"> Click here </a>

You can also try with javascript (jQuery):

$('a.myLink').trigger(
    $.Event('click', {
        ctrlKey: true
    })
);

edited Feb 04 '18 at 13:58

answered Jul 11 '17 at 09:21

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Doh, yes of course, apologies for posting this question. – Paul Taylor Jul 11 '17 at 09:28

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '17 at 09:23

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<p> <a href="https://www.w3schools.com" target="_blank">click here</a></p>

use target="_blank" it will open the link in new tab

answered Jul 11 '17 at 09:23

Gokulakrishnan M

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '17 at 09:29

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Use target="_blank" inside your link tag:

<a href="link" title="link title" target="_blank">link title</a>

answered Jul 11 '17 at 09:29

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