Make a link open a new window not tab

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Is there a way to make a link open a new browser window  not tab  without using javascript

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You can try this -      lt a href  some htm  target   blank  gt Link Text lt  a gt    and you can try this one also -     lt a href  some htm  onclick  if  event ctrlKey amp  amp  window opera  alert  Hold the Ctrl Key   return false  else return true    target   blank  gt Link Text lt  a gt

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With pure HTML you can t influence this - every modern browser    the user  has complete control over this behavior because it has been misused a lot in the past       HTML option  You can open a new window  HTML4  or a new browsing context  HTML5   Browsing context in modern browsers is mostly  new tab  instead of  new window   You have no influence on that  and you can t  force  modern browsers to open a new window   In order to do this  use the anchor element s  attribute target 1   The value you are looking for is  blank 2     lt a href  www example com example html  target   blank  gt link text lt  a gt    JavaScript option  Forcing a new window is possible via javascript - see Ievgen s excellent answer below for a javascript solution       However  be aware  that opening  windows via javascript  if not done in the onclick event from an anchor element  are subject to getting blocked by popup blockers    1  This attribute dates back to the times when browsers did not have tabs and using framesets was state of the art  In the meantime  the functionality of this attribute has slightly changed  see MDN Docu    2  There are some other values which do not make much sense anymore  because they were designed with framesets in mind  like  parent   self or  top

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That will open a new window  not tab  with JavaScript  but quite laconically     lt a href  print html        onclick  window open  print html                              newwindow                              width 300 height 250                   return false     gt Print lt  a gt

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Browsers control a lot of this functionality but    lt a href  http   www yahoo com  target   blank  gt Go to Yahoo lt  a gt    will attempt to open yahoo com in a new window

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I know that its bit old Q but if u get here by searching a solution so i got a nice one via jquery    jQuery  a target    new     click function         var width   window innerWidth   0 66          define the height in     var height   width   window innerHeight   window innerWidth          Ratio the hight to the width as the user screen ratio     window open this href    newwindow    width     width      height     height      top       window innerHeight - height    2       left       window innerWidth - width    2           it will open all the  lt a target   new  gt  in a new window  EDIT   1st  I did some little changes in the original code now it open the new window perfectly followed the user screen ratio  for landscape desktops   but  I would like to recommend you to use the following code that open the link in new tab if you in mobile  thanks to zvona answer in other question    jQuery  a target    new     click function         return openWindow this href       function openWindow url         if  window innerWidth  lt   640               if width is smaller then 640px  create a temporary a elm that will open the link in new tab         var a   document createElement  a            a setAttribute  href   url           a setAttribute  target     blank             var dispatch   document createEvent  HTMLEvents            dispatch initEvent  click   true  true            a dispatchEvent dispatch             else           var width   window innerWidth   0 66              define the height in         var height   width   window innerHeight   window innerWidth              Ratio the hight to the width as the user screen ratio         window open url    newwindow    width     width      height     height      top       window innerHeight - height    2       left       window innerWidth - width    2              return false

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