How to Stay on Current page while using window.open

Question

I am firing the Window.open(); command. which opens the link page in another tab. what i want is when i click the link, the link will open in new window but should be on the same page.

Is that possible ?

presently i am using like this.

function AddToDatabase(url) {
            window.open(url, "_blank");
}

Answer 1

Use _self instead of _blank.

window.open(url, "_self");

1. _blank - URL is loaded into a new window. This is default
2. _parent - URL is loaded into the parent frame
3. _self - URL replaces the current page
4. _top - URL replaces any framesets that may be loaded name - The name of the window

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Answer 2

The code you have should not be changing the page. How are you calling AddToDatabase()? Is it from an a href tag? If so the default action is taking place from the link and you need to prevent that.

You can set the href attribute to javascript:void(0)

<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="AddToDatabase('myUrl')">Add URL</a>

Or you can have the onclick attribute return false

<a href="#" onclick="AddToDatabase('myUrl'); return false;">Add URL</a>