[javascript] Javascript - Open a given URL in a new tab by clicking a button

I would like to have a button that redirects to a given URL and opens in a new tab. How can this be done?

try this

<a id="link" href="www.gmail.com" target="_blank" >gmail</a>

Adding target="_blank" should do it:

<a id="myLink" href="www.google.com" target="_blank">google</a>

Use window.open instead of window.location to open a new window or tab (depending on browser settings).

Your fiddle does not work because there is no button element to select. Try input[type=button] or give the button an id and use #buttonId.

My preferred method has the advantage of no JavaScript embedded in your markup:

CSS

a {
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
}

HTML

<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank"><input type="button" value="Link-button"></a>

I just used target="_blank" under form tag and it worked fine with FF and Chrome where it opens in a new tag but with IE it opens in a new window.

<BUTTON NAME='my_button' VALUE=sequence_no TYPE='SUBMIT' style="background-color:transparent ; border:none; color:blue;" onclick="this.form.target='_blank';return true;"><u>open new page</u></BUTTON>

This button will look like a URL and can be opened in a new tab.

USE this code

function openBackWindow(url,popName){
        var popupWindow = window.open(url,popName,'scrollbars=1,height=650,width=1050');
          if($.browser.msie){
            popupWindow.blur();
            window.focus();
        }else{
           blurPopunder();
        }
      };

    function blurPopunder() {
            var winBlankPopup = window.open("about:blank");
            if (winBlankPopup) {
                winBlankPopup.focus();
                winBlankPopup.close()
            }
    };

IT works fine in Mozilla,IE and chrome on and less than 22 version; but doesn't work in Opera and Safari.

You can't. This behaviour is only available for plugins and can only be configured by the user.

Open in new tab using javascript

 <button onclick="window.open('https://www.our-url.com')" id="myButton" 
 class="btn request-callback" >Explore More  </button>

Try this HTML:

<input type="button" value="Button_name" onclick="window.open('LINKADDRESS')"/>

In javascript you can do:

window.open(url, "_blank");

You can forget about using JavaScript because the browser controls whether or not it opens in a new tab. Your best option is to do something like the following instead:

<form action="http://www.yoursite.com/dosomething" method="get" target="_blank">
    <input name="dynamicParam1" type="text"/>
    <input name="dynamicParam2" type="text" />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

This will always open in a new tab regardless of which browser a client uses due to the target="_blank" attribute.

If all you need is to redirect with no dynamic parameters you can use a link with the target="_blank" attribute as Tim Büthe suggests.