Open in new tab

[jfrolich]

It would be great for Linking to provide an option to open in a new window/tab. (Or is there already a way to do this?)

[steida]

It's impossible to open a new tab without a link with the target.

[jfrolich]

Sure? I think it's possible with window.open?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132122/open-url-in-new-window-with-javascript

[steida]

Window, not tab. Remember it's restricted because of popups.

[jfrolich]

Window, not tab. Remember it's restricted because of popups.

You are right. I formulated it wrong, it should be open in new tab.

[steida]

It's impossible. The user has to click to a link. Browsers require that.

[jfrolich]

It's impossible. The user has to click to a link. Browsers require that.

window.open second argument is target, if I use that with "_blank" it opens in a new tab (at least in Chrome)

[Sharcoux]

Could this solve this issue?

[avanwinkle]

Resurrecting this thread to ask why the implementation hard-coded _blank as the target, instead of the other proposal #1743 which allowed a parameter?

I ask because there are scenarios where the desired behavior is not to open in a new tab, but that is currently impossible due to the hard-coded _blank.