I've build a web page that let's you select a page name from a drop down list and then transfers the browser to that page. The code that does the transfer is
if (url){
window.open(url, '_blank');
}
where "url" is the page selected.
A console log just before the window.open line prints something like:
executing: window.open(http://www.mywebsite.com/44/threats.html, '_blank')
and then the browsers opens the page in a new tab.
This works fine on Windows 7 for all the browsers, including Safari.
On an iMac it works for Firefox but not for Safari.
Does anyone know why iMac/Safari won't do this?
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You can't rely on window.open
because browsers may have different policies. I had the same issue and I used the code below instead.
let a = document.createElement("a");
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.style = "display: none";
a.href = <your_url>;
a.download = <your_fileName>;
a.click();
document.body.removeChild(a);
Taken from the accepted answers comment by Steve on Dec 20, 2013:
Actually, there's a very easy way to do it: just click off "Block popup windows" in the iMac/Safari browser and it does what I want.
To clarify, when running Safari on Mac OS X El Capitan:
The correct syntax is window.open(URL,WindowTitle,'_blank')
All the arguments in the open must be strings. They are not mandatory, and window can be dropped. So just newWin=open()
works as well, if you plan to populate newWin.document by yourself.
BUT you MUST use all the three arguments, and the third one set to '_blank'
for opening a new true window and not a tab.
Safari is blocking any call to window.open() which is made inside an async call.
The solution that I found to this problem is to call window.open before making an asnyc call and set the location when the promise resolves.
var windowReference = window.open();
myService.getUrl().then(function(url) {
windowReference.location = url;
});
window.location.assign(url)
this fixs the window.open(url)
issue in ios devices
To use window.open() in safari you must put it in an element's onclick event attribute.
For example:
<button class='btn' onclick='window.open("https://www.google.com", "_blank");'>Open Google search</button>
There's a setting in Safari under "Tabs" that labeled Open pages in tabs instead of windows:
with a drop down with a few options. I'm thinking yours may be set to Always
. Bottom line is you can't rely on a browser opening a new window.
Source: Stackoverflow.com