JavaScript open in a new window not tab

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I have a select box that calls window open url  when an item is selected   Firefox will open the page in a new tab by default   However  I would like the page to open in a new window  not a new tab     How can I accomplish this

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Interestingly  I found that if you pass in an empty string  as opposed to a null string  or a list of properties  for the third attribute of window open  it would open in a new tab for Chrome  Firefox  and IE   If absent  the behavior was different   So  this is my new call    window open url  windowName

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Answered here  But posting it again for reference    window open   will not open in new tab if it is not happening on actual click event  In the example given the url is being opened on actual click event  This will work provided user has appropriate settings in the browser    lt a class  link  gt Link lt  a gt   lt script  type  text javascript  gt          a link   on  click  function             window open  www yourdomain com    blank              lt  script gt    Similarly  if you are trying to do an ajax call within the click function and want to open a window on success  ensure you are doing the ajax call with async   false option set

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I just tried this with IE  11  and Chrome  54 0 2794 1 canary SyzyASan    window open url    blank    x y         and it opened in a new window     Which means that Clint pachl had it right when he said that providing any one parameter will cause the new window to open   -- and apparently it doesn t have to be a legitimate parameter    YMMV - as I said  I only tested it in two places   and the next upgrade might invalidate the results  any way   ETA  I just noticed  though - in IE  the window has no decorations

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You don t need to use height  just make sure you use  blank   Without it  it opens in a new tab   For a empty window   window open       blank    toolbar 0 location 0 menubar 0      For a specific URL   window open  http   www google com     blank    toolbar 0 location 0 menubar 0

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Try   window open      window name    height XXX width XXX modal yes alwaysRaised yes      I have some code that does what your say  but there is a lot of parameters in it   I think these are the bare minimum  let me know if it doesn t work  I ll post the rest

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You might try following function    lt script type  text javascript  gt  function open url      var popup   window open url    blank    width 200  height 200       popup location   URL     lt  script gt    The HTML code for execution    lt a href     onclick  open  http   www google com    gt google search lt  a gt

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I think its not html target properties problem but you unchecked  open nw windows in a new tab instead  option in  tab  tab under firefox  options  menu  check it and try again

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The key is the parameters    If you provide  Parameters   Height      Width        then it will open in new windows   If you DON T provide Parameters   then  it will open in new tab   Tested in Chrome and Firefox

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OK  after making a lot of test  here my concluson   When you perform        window open  www yourdomain tld    blank         window open  www yourdomain tld   myWindow      or whatever you put in the destination field  this will change nothing  the new page will be opened in a new tab  so depend on user preference   If you want the page to be opened in a new  real  window  you must put extra parameter  Like   window open  www yourdomain tld    mywindow   location 1 status 1 scrollbars 1  resizable 1  directories 1  toolbar 1  titlebar 1      After testing  it seems the extra parameter you use  dont  really matter  this is not the fact you put  this parameter  or  this other one  which create the new  real window  but the fact there is new parameter s    But something is confused and may explain a lot of wrong answers   This    win1   window open  myurl1    ID WIN     win2   window open  myurl2    ID WIN    location 1 status 1 scrollbars 1      And this    win2   window open  myurl2    ID WIN    location 1 status 1 scrollbars 1     win1   window open  myurl1    ID WIN      will NOT give the same result    In the first case  as you first open a page without extra parameter  it will open in a new tab  And in this case  the second call will be also opened in this tab because of the name you give   In second case  as your first call is made with extra parameter  the page will be opened in a new  real window   And in that case  even if the second call is made without the extra parameter  it will also be opened in this new  real window     but same tab   This mean the first call is important as it decided where to put the page

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For me the solution was to have   location 0    in the 3rd parameter  Tested on latest FF Chrome and an old version of IE11  Full method call I use is below  As I like to use a variable width    window open url   window    id   toolbar 0 location 0 scrollbars 1 statusbar 1 menubar 0 resizable 1 width     width     height 800 left 100 top 50

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try that method       function popitup url             alert url          newwindow window open  http   www zeeshanakhter com    blank   toolbar yes scrollbars yes  resizable yes  top 500  left 500  width 400  height 400           newwindow moveTo 350 150      if  window focus                            newwindow focus                  return false

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I may be wrong  but from what I understand  this is controlled by the user s browser preferences  and I do not believe that this can be overridden

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You shouldn t need to  Allow the user to have whatever preferences they want   Firefox does that by default because opening a page in a new window is annoying and a page should never be allowed to do so if that is not what is desired by the user   Firefox does allow you to open tabs in a new window if you set it that way

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I had this same question but found a relatively simple solution to it    In JavaScript I was checking for window opener   null  to determine if the window was a pop up  If you re using some similar detection code to determine if the window you re site is being rendered in is a pop up you can easily  turn it off  when you want to open a  new  window using the new windows JavaScript    Just put this at the top of your page you want to always be a  new  window      lt script type  text javascript  gt      window opener null   lt  script gt    I use this on the log in page of my site so users don t get pop up behavior if they use a pop up window to navigate to my site    You could even create a simple redirect page that does this and then moves to the URL you gave it  Something like   JavaScript on parent page   window open  MyRedirect html URL   URL    blank      And then by using a little javascript from here you can get the URL and redirect to it   JavaScript on Redirect Page     lt script type  text javascript  gt          window opener null       function getSearchParameters               var prmstr   window location search substr 1             return prmstr    null  amp  amp  prmstr         transformToAssocArray prmstr                   function transformToAssocArray  prmstr             var params               var prmarr   prmstr split   amp             for   var i   0  i  lt  prmarr length  i                  var tmparr   prmarr i  split                   params tmparr 0     tmparr 1                     return params             var params   getSearchParameters        window location   params URL       lt  script gt

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Specify window  quot features quot  to the open call  window open url  windowName   quot height 200 width 200 quot     When you specify a width height  it will open it in a new window instead of a tab  See https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Window open Position and size features for all the possible features

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