simulate ctrl + click with javascript or jquery (to open a new tab without focus)

Question

I am playing with the jquery event object but I am stuck as hell

I read the API https://api.jquery.com/category/events/event-object/ but it's not really helping here, I am not even sure it's a good lead to do that

Do you have any suggestion ( the problem is to do the exact ctrl + click on a link). I saw some posts about it but nothing seems to work on the recent browsers

very simple exemple :

<span id="toto">toto</span>
<a href="https://google.fr" id="inANewTab"></a>

// The goal is when I click on #toto, I would like #inANewTab trigger 
// in a new tab without focus. To do that I was thinking
// about replicate a ctrl+click event

$('#toto').click(function(){
  ???
})

Answer 1

Edit:

The Event object in jQuery has a parameter for ctrlKey, you could assign that as true, on click.

var e = jQuery.Event("click");
e.ctrlKey = true;
$('#id').trigger(e);

Reference: jquery trigger ctrl + click