How to use target in location href

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I am currently developing a web application where I need to open a popup window to show a report  The problem is that some versions of explorer don t support the window open javascript function  so when this is the case I catch the error and open the new url with location href  Here the code   try       window open url      width 1002 height 700 location 0 menubar 0 scrollbars 1 status 1 resizable 0     catch e        location target     blank       location href   url      The problem is that the location target is not working and I would like to know if there is a way to specify the target of the location href so it can be opened in a new tab

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As of 2014  you can trigger the click on a  lt a  gt  tag  However  for security reasons  you have to do it in a click event handler  or the browser will tag it as a popup  some other events may allow you to safely trigger the opening    jsFiddle

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If you are using an  lt a  gt  to trigger the report  you can try this approach   Instead of attempting to spawn a new window when window open   fails  make the default scenario to open a new window via target  and prevent it if window open   succeeds    HTML   lt a href  http   my url  target   blank  id  myLink  gt Link lt  a gt    JS  var spawn   function  e        try           window open this href      width 1002 height 700 location 0 menubar 0 scrollbars 1 status 1 resizable 0           e preventDefault       Or  return false        catch e           Allow the default event handler to take place          document getElementById  myLink   onclick   spawn

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lt a href  url  target   blank  gt   lt input type  button  value  fake button    gt   lt  a gt

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You can use this on any element where onclick works   onclick  window open  some htm    blank

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Why not have a hidden anchor tag on the page with the target set as you need  then simulate clicking it when you need the pop out   How can I simulate a click to an anchor tag   This would work in the cases where the window open did not work

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You could try this            lt script type  text javascript  gt           function newWindow url                   window open url                          lt  script gt    And call the function

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try this one  which simulates a click on an anchor   var a   document createElement  a    a href  http   www google com   a target     blank   document body appendChild a   a click

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The problem is that some versions of explorer don t support the window open javascript function   Say what  Can you provide a reference for that statement  With respect  I think you must be mistaken  This works on IE6 and IE9  for instance   Most modern browsers won t let your code use window open except in direct response to a user event  in order to keep spam pop-ups and such at bay  perhaps that s what you re thinking of  As long as you only use window open when responding to a user event  you should be fine using window open nbsp  mdash  with all versions of IE   There is no way to use location to open a new window  Just window open or  of course  the user clicking a link with target   blank

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If you go with the solution by  qiao  perhaps you would want to remove the appended child since the tab remains open and subsequent clicks would add more elements to the DOM      Code by  qiao var a   document createElement  a   a href    http   www google com  a target     blank  document body appendChild a  a click      Added code document body removeChild a    Maybe someone could post a comment to his post  because I cannot

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