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Open a Link in a New Tab using JavaScript
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newTab.js
function newTab(url)
{
if(url.href) { url = url.href } // so that you can use onclick="return newTab(this);"
form = document.createElement("form");
form.setAttribute("method","get");
form.setAttribute("target","_blank");
form.setAttribute("action",url);
form.submit();
return false;
}
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usage.htm
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>New Tab</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="newTab.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" onclick="return newTab(this);">Google (in a new tab!)</a>
</body>
</html>
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