How to - Click on a hyperlink and open that destination PLUS a new browswer instance and site?

Question

Looking for javascript that will accomplish the following....there is an existing hyperlink. When the user clicks on that hyperlink, I want the new page to come up PLUS open a new browser instance (pop-up) with content in it.

Answer 1

This ought to do the trick. It's the most condensed way I could think to do it.

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Get rid of the line breaks when you copy and paste the code. (Yahoo won't let me post the code any other way)

javascript: puts the link into javascript mode

window.open: opens the new window. The first argument is the URL, the rest are better described on this page http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmaScript/quickref/win_open.html (or just search "javascript window.open")

location: changes the URL of the current window

Note that with browsers that support "tabs", the javascript window.open function doesn't necessarily open a new browser instance. You will probably have to use the width/height values to play with that.

Answer 2

If you do not need to control the scroll bar, toolbar, size of the new window, then will do the work. But if you need more control then you need (for example).

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Answer 3

You don't need JavaScript to do this. You can use target="_blank" in your anchor tag.

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