HTML: how to force links to open in a new tab, not new window

Since I fell into this old question and then found that it is now possible (maybe this css option wasn't available then), I just want to add an update on how it can be done:

<a href="[yourlink]" target="_blank" style="target-new: tab;">Google</a>

Here are the options for the target-new style:

target-new: window | tab | none 

Didn't test the none option, maybe it uses the default browser setting.

I confirmed this for Firefox and IE7-9.

No, there isn't.

There is no way to do that as the author of the HTML that a browser renders. At least not yet that I know of. Its pretty much up to the browser and its settings / preferences that are set by users themselves.

Also, you shouldn't impose this upon any user. A browser is the user's property. If a user wants to open all links in tabs or in new windows, then let the user do exactly that.

It's good that we can't do certain things. target=_blank is still abused and popups have been done to death.

I hope this will help you

window.open(url,'_newtab');