open url in new tab or reuse existing one whenever possible

Question

Now I have a link

link

However, this always open up a new tab. I want the following ef

Answer 1

You can set specific window's name, in order to open reuse the tab. The problem is, as far as the href will be the same, it won't be reloaded. So you can't obtain the refresh part easily.

So, for instance, you can have:

link
link

In JS, you can actually obtain the same, using window.open. You could also use the url as target, so that you don't need to specify manually:

link
link

You could also generalize, and add a click listener to the document, in order to open some links in this way. Something like:

    link
    link

If the page are on the same domain, at this point you could probably trying to do an empiric refresh of the page as well.