How to Open links in New Tab of browser with Javascript or VBscript

[jscheuer1]

Just go to: http://browservulsel.blogspot.com/20...ener-user.html

this guy seems to have cracked it............I hate it when people say something cant be done, its so anoying.

That appears to be a customization for the greesemonkey FF browser extension. We already knew that users could customize their own browsers to behave as desired. How (if at all) does that work on a live web page for all FF and IE 7 users? If we can get everybody to switch to FF and install GM, it might just work out.

[boxxertrumps]

greasemonkey is just an extention that appends your own JS docs to the head section, they work like any normal script.

Unless I've been misled.

*looks slowly around the room, backs out of the door*

[jscheuer1]

greasemonkey is just an extention that appends your own JS docs to the head section, they work like any normal script.

Unless I've been misled.

*looks slowly around the room, backs out of the door*

Not so in this case. The script uses:

GM_openInTab(a.href);

to open in a tab. That looks like a GM proprietary function to me as, 'GM_openInTab' occurs nowhere else in the code.

If you can put up a demo page and show me how it works in FF and IE 7, then I will be convinced.

I hate it when people say something cant be done, its so anoying.

I don't mind it so much as solutions that don't work.

[mburt]

I hate it when people say something cant be done, its so anoying.

It didn't work either. It kept pointing me in the same page.

[Raj]

So guys are we saying that we don't have any answer to this???

[prantoor]

What you want can u write me details.do u want to open a page in new tab by javascript.
if yes then i can help you for Firefox but i have no idea on IE. i am searching for IE.

[Matey]

I may be over thinking this. Just use:

<a href="some.htm" target="_blank">Link Text</a>

That's, I believe, the best you can do.

(I know it is an old thread but..)

Thanks a lot. I have been looking on the web for 2 days but found nothing that worked! This is the only code that really works! and works great!

Thanks a lot!

[jscheuer1]

I may be over thinking this. Just use:

<a href="some.htm" target="_blank">Link Text</a>

That's, I believe, the best you can do.

(I know it is an old thread but..)

Thanks a lot. I have been looking on the web for 2 days but found nothing that worked! This is the only code that really works! and works great!

Thanks a lot!

No problem. Now, the original question was wanting to open in a new window, except if the browser has tabbed browsing, then in that case open a new tab. Most browsers will just behave that way if you ask for the new window in the most generic terms, either as quoted above or, using javascript:

<a href="whatever.htn" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Link Text</a>

What you cannot do is force a new window or tab if the browser is using other than its default settings for whatever it is that you want. You can force a new window for all in some cases (for users with default settings), but almost never (the exception being if the user has some add on that can be tricked into thinking your script is really the user's own self configuration script) force a new tab.

Just to be clear, whatever you try, if the user has their browser configured to maintain control of such things, the user will win the 'battle'.

[ekotaktik]

Could it possibly be as simple as this?

form = document.createElement("form");
form.method = "GET";
form.action = "http://www.your.link.url.com";
form.target = "_blank";
document.body.appendChild(form);
form.submit();

[jscheuer1]

Could it possibly be as simple as this?

form = document.createElement("form");
form.method = "GET";
form.action = "http://www.your.link.url.com";
form.target = "_blank";
document.body.appendChild(form);
form.submit();

No. For one, that's not simple. For another, all of the caveats that I mentioned in my previous post will still apply.

Also note that you have an undeclared variable in the global scope (form). Oh, and it's not HTML code.

However, none of that's to say it won't work in some cases. Without testing I cannot say for sure, but it looks workable. Recommended? Definitely not.