Open URL in same window and in same tab

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I want to open a link in the same window and in the same tab that contains the page with the link   When I try to open a link by using window open  then it opens in new tab   not in the same tab in the same window

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With html 5 you can use history API   history pushState     prevUrl  window location href      Next page    http   localhost x next page    history go      Then on the next page you can access state object like so  let url   history state prevUrl  if  url      console log  user come from     url

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One of the most prominent javascript features is to fire onclick handlers on the fly  I found following mechanism more reliable than using location href    or location reload   or window open      this function can fire onclick handler for any DOM-Element function fireClickEvent element        var evt   new window MouseEvent  click             view  window          bubbles  true          cancelable  true              element dispatchEvent evt         this function will setup a virtual anchor element    and fire click handler to open new URL in the same room    it works better than location href something or location reload   function openNewURLInTheSameWindow targetURL        var a   document createElement  a        a href   targetURL      fireClickEvent a       Above code is also helpful to open new tab window and bypassing all pop-up blockers    E g   function openNewTabOrNewWindow targetURL        var a   document createElement  a        a href   targetURL       a target     blank      now it will open new tab window and bypass any popup blocker       fireClickEvent a

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You need to use the name attribute   window open  https   www youraddress com    self     Edit  Url should be prepended with protocol  Without it tries to open relative url  Tested in Chrome 59  Firefox 54 and IE 11

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window open url  wndname  params   it has three arguments  if you don t want it open in the same window  just set a different wndname  such as    window open url1   name1   params      this open one window or tab window open url1   name2   params      though url is same  but it ll open in another window tab     Here is the details about window open    you can trust it  https   developer mozilla org en DOM window open  have a try

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Do you have to use window open  What about using window location  http   example com

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If you have your pages inside  frame  then       Window open  logout aspx    self      will be redirected inside same frame  So by using    Window open  logout aspx    top      we can load the page as new request

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Open another url like a click in link  window location href    http   example com

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Thats pretty easy  Open first window as window open url   lt tabNmae gt    Example  window open  abc com   myTab    and for next all window open  use same tab name instead of  self   parent etc

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Just Try in button       lt button onclick  location reload   location href  url name       id  myButton  class  btn request-callback   gt Explore More lt  button gt      Using href      lt a href     class  know how  onclick  location reload   location href  url name   gt Know More lt  a gt

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As MDN s refs says  just need give a name of the new window tab   https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Window open Syntax  open in the current tab page using  self   lt a  href  url   target   self  gt     open  lt  a gt    const autoOpenAlink    url         gt      window open url   open testing page in the same tab page         open in a new tab page using  blank     vue demo        lt div style  margin  5px   gt           lt a              href  url               click  autoOpenAlink              target   blank               gt                url            lt  a gt       lt  div gt       vue       autoOpenAlink e            e preventDefault            let url   this url          window open url   iframe testing page

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You can do window close    window open  quot index html quot     and it worked successfully on my website

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You can have it go to the same page without specifying the url   window open       self

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Use this   location href    http   example com

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In order to ensure that the link is opened in the same tab  you should use window location replace     See the example below    window location replace  http   www w3schools com      Source  http   www w3schools com jsref met loc replace asp

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Exactly like this window open  www youraddress com    self

[javascript] Open URL in same window and in same tab

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