How to always open a new page in a new window with JavaScript?

Published on October 22, 2008 in JavaScript. 3 Comments Tags: JavaScript.

In order to always open a new page in a new window you can employ window.open function of JavaScript:

window.open(URL, UNIQUE_TITLE, WINDOW_FEATURES)

Note: If you have a number of links that use this JavaScript snippet and want to open each of them in a separate window remember to set UNIQUE_TITLE to a unique string for each of them. If those strings are the same, the new window will be created only once and it will be reused every time you click such link.

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3 Responses to “How to always open a new page in a new window with JavaScript?”

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anatolysopot
January 13, 2009 at 14:11

yah gr8!
Joe Chung
June 15, 2009 at 8:01

Or you could just use “_blank”.

“If you want to open a new window on every call of window.open(), you should use the special value _blank for strWindowName.”

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Window.open
Jarosław Dobrzański
June 15, 2009 at 8:45

Thanks Joe!
One more thing learnt

Jarek

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