Focus tab or window

Question

for a little app, I\'m opening a few windows/tabs from my script. Whether the browser opens a window or a tab is of course not in my hand.

However, I hold the refere

Answer 1

Expanding on Alex's contribution above. The use case is having a CMS. When a site owner is logged into the CMS, and the front end is loaded in another tab. You give the site owner a link on the front end that reloads the CMS tab and focuses is.

Place this javacript on front end pages (or include in a global JS file):

I like to put the CMS link just after the H1 content. Again, this is only if they are logged into the CMS. In this case I am pointing to a Framed CMS, so it has to know what to load into the main frame (pun intended).

    Page Heading
    

This to make sure the tab is unique, in case I have several CMSs in my browser (support multiple clients):

target="#cgi.server_name#wvAdmin"

Finally, on the frame loader in the CMS, add this...

... to ensure that if the user opened the CMS on their own, we can still work with it.