Question
I'm trying to open a URL in a new tab, as opposed to a popup window.
I've seen related questions where the responses would look something like:
window.open(url,'_blank');
window.open(url);
But none of them worked for me, the browser still tried to open a popup window.
Answer
Nothing an author can do can choose to open in a new tab instead of a new window; it is a user preference. (Note that the default user preference in most browsers is for new tabs, so a trivial test on a browser where that preference hasn't been changed will not demonstrate this.)
CSS3 proposed [target-new](https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD- css3-hyperlinks-20040224/#target-new), but the specification was abandoned.
The reverse is not true; by
specifying certain window features for the window in the third argument of
window.open(), you can trigger a new window when the preference is for tabs.
