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I have a link that opens in a new tab with _blank:

<a href="new_page.html" target="_blank">link</a>

I'd like to be able to 'click' on this from Javascript. I know I could do document.location=... but the problem here is the new tab part. Is this possible?

izb
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  • If you just want to click on the link in Javascript, there are certainly ways. If you want to open a new tab using javascript alone, you may be interested in this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7924232/open-new-tab-in-javascript – NT3RP Nov 17 '11 at 00:39

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You can usually open a new window or tab using window.open. So instead of setting location, just call window.open and pass only the URL, nothing else.

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$("#your_a").click(function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   window.open($(this).attr("href"), this.target);
}

You could use any name for target, preventDefault() if you want to override the link actions completely

Willy Carman
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If you really want to simulate click, you can give a id to the anchor tag and call jQuery click() on that element.

<a id="mylink" href="new_page.html" target="_blank">link</a>

and in script

$("#mylink").click()
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to "simulate" the click you trigger the click event:

HTML:

<a href="new_page.html" target="_blank" id="mylink">click me</a>

jQuery:

$("#mylink").trigger("click");

-or-

$("#mylink").click();

Using 'trigger' allows you to pass in extra parameters if you bind a function to the click event. See the jQuery 'trigger' documentation for more info: http://api.jquery.com/trigger/

Mike Taylor
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