How to prevent new window/tab opening after form post

Question

I have a form submission like:

<form target="_blank" id="discussionForm" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<%=discussionURL%>">

Then I have a Submit button at the end. This works, and it posts to my db, but it opens a new tab with the url of the service that I'm using to post to the db. I don't want that new tab to open. I tried playing around with different targets, but I thought _blank would work. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Remove target attribute and it should be fine.

target="_blank" actually means it should open in a new tab/window.

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