Open HTML meta redirect in new window

Question

I need web page to redirect via HTML meta and open that page in a new window. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can do this! It is particularly useful when the refresh is being run in an iframe (such as a Facebook app canvas page), and you want the refresh to load the content to the main (parent) window.

Use the following Javascript in your meta-redirect:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=javascript:window.open('http://google.com','_parent');">

Answer 2

You can't. You need to use javascript on a timer to open a popup (which most likely will be blocked by some browsers as an unrequested popup window)

You are probably better off taking a different approach to your problem.

Answer 3

You can't do that with a meta redirect. Grab JavaScript.

<script type="text/javascript">window.open('http://google.com');</script>

Either that, or add target="_blank" to the originating link/form which landed in this "Photo Gallery Redirect" page.

<a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">click here</a>

or

<form action="http://google.com" target="_blank">
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

Not XHTML/HTML5 valid, but it works. Else you can just add rel="ext" and use some piece of Javascript to silently put the target="_blank" in anyway.