Javascript to open URL within a new Tab (instead of a window)

Question

Hey guys. There are a few entries here requiring solutions to do the opposite of this, and others vaguely related. In one of them, the poster asked how to do this on Mozilla Fir

Answer 1

The obvious answer is to open the link with target="_blank". As you said, Firefox and Chrome will open a new tab.

Regarding IE - the behavior is up to browser preferences. By default (in IE7+ obviously) I believe the behavior is defined as open new tab. If the user decided the behavior should be a new window, there's only so much you can do about it.