How to open url to the same tab if its already open in browser

Question

I am facing some challenge- Lets consider I have a menu and under that I have 3 links-

About
Contact Us
FAQs

By default home page is About menu item. Now when I am clicking on "Contact Us" , I want to open a new tab on same browser window. And without closing this if again I am clinking on "Contact Us" from the first tab, this time I do not want to open new tab because I have already an open tab for Contact us, I just wanted to navigate to the same one which is earlier opened. How to handle this scenario in jsp.

Is there any way to do this. please help me.

Answer 1

you can always put a name in the target so it will always go to the same window/tab

<a href="somerandomurl.com" target="mywindow">Contact Us<\a>

Its not possible to control this on Internet explorer. You can however change how IE behaves: -Internet Options -Tabs -Always open pop-ups in a new tab -Open links from other programs in: A new tab in the current window

target="_blank" will always make sure it opens in a new window http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp

It will however refresh the page with the same url

You can have the link return a javascript window object and be able to return to the window anytime you want without refreshing the page

var newtab = null;

function openwindow(){
  if (newtab==null) {
    newtab = window.open("www.example.com");
  } else {
    newtab.focus();
  }

}

<a onclick="openwindow()">click me</a>