CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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SAF
SAF

Reputation: 121

Get anchor tag to open in new window

Is there a way to get anchor tags to open in a new window instead of the current one?

    <a href="my_link">Link</a>

Upvotes: 8

Views: 47766

Answers (5)

Gopi P
Gopi P

Reputation: 437

you no need to write such long javascript to do with your requirement. Just set target attribute to _blank in your anchir tag itself. whenever a user click on that link it will open in new tab. sample tag is as follow

<a href="www.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>

Hope this helps you

NOTE: For Security reason

Upvotes: 8

Darren Gomez
Darren Gomez

Reputation: 31

The easiest way is to do:

<a href="https://www.google.com/" target="new">Google</a>

This will open whatever the link given in a new tab.

Upvotes: 3

Snopzer
Snopzer

Reputation: 1692

This will work but its pure javascript

<a href="http://www.snopzer.com" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'Snopzer',
'left=20,top=20,width=500,height=500,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); return false;" >Open Link</a>

Upvotes: 4

prakashstar42
prakashstar42

Reputation: 687

Use jQuery/javascript to open in new window 

$('a').click(function(){ 
  window.open('http://google.com') 
});

Upvotes: -18

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943579

Set the target attribute to _blank.

You have no control over what sort of new "window" the browser will open it in. It might be an actual window, it might be a tab, it might be overridden and forced to the same window.

It is, however, a bad idea, so don't do it, really, please don't.

Upvotes: 41

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