I want to open a new tab instead of a popup window

Question

I am trying to open a new tab. But Window.open() is opening up popup window.

I want to open hello.php file in a new tab. But it is opening

Answer 1

assign the url to open to a tag's href attribute, with target="_blank", then trigger link click when you want. Example:

<a id="myLink" href="hello.php?username=<?php echo $username; ?>" target="_blank">

Then, call a js function to trigger link click

document.getElementById('myLink').click();

Answer 2

In case it could be a javascript issue about override functions, do that:

<script>
(function(window, undefined){
    var win = window.open('your_url', '_blank');
    win.focus();
})(window);
</script>

That should make you can't use functions from other javascript code out of your function(window, undefined) wrapper-

Answer 3

You can do it by window.open(url, '_blank');