JavaScript open in a new tab, not window in Chrome browser

javascript google-chrome tabs

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Solution 1

You can try:

var tab=window.open("Download.php",'_blank'); 
tab.focus();

Steps to verify

create a html file with markup:

<html>
 <body>
   <script>
     function newTab(){
        var tab=window.open("http://conceptf1.blogspot.com/2013/11/javascript-closures.html",'_blank'); 
        tab.focus();
     }
   </script>
   <a href="#" onclick="newTab()">Open Tab</a>
  </body>
</html>

Open it in chrome and click the link.

Solution 2

Short answer: you can't. At least for now, the browser vendors view this as something that should strictly be left to users to define for themselves. You set your target to something that should be a new window, and the browser will use the user's preferences to decide whether it opens as a new window or a new tab.

Long answer: There's a CSS property that would do this on the HTML side, but none of the browsers support it. According to the proposal, you'd use target-new: tab for links that you explicitly want to open in a new tab, and target-new: window for those you want to open in a new window. I don't know of any DOM proposals to do something analogous to this on the JavaScript side.

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JEYASHRI R

HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP

Updated on June 05, 2022

Comments

JEYASHRI R almost 2 years
I am using,
```
window.open("Download.php");
```
This file opens in a new tab for all browsers. But in Chrome, it opens in a new window. So I have tried:
```
window.open("Download.php",'_blank'); 
window.open("Download.php",'_new');
```
But it still opens in new window, not a tab. I don't know if this is a coding problem or default settings problem. I am using Chrome v31.0.1650.57 m.