How to tell browser to stay on current window

Question

When I do a window.open() is there a way to tell the browser to stay on the current window or tab and not go to the new tab or window?

Answer 1

Found that a way to do this is with self.focus() in the javascript called from the original window. Got this from reading that discussion: Prevent window.open from focusing.

So my code looks like this.

    $.ajax({ 
        url : "filename.php", 
        dataType: "html", 
        success : function (data) { 
            $('#div').html(data);
            $('#div2').css('visibility','hidden');
        } 
    });

    var external_window = window.open(url,'_blank');
    self.focus();