Open links in one Tab [duplicate]

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I am trying to reuse the same tab when clicking on links in my page. The links are grabbed dynamically from the database. I have tried the window.open("$LinkURL", "MyTab"); assuming that the $LinkURL is the varriable with the link I want to open. But when a link is clicked, it opens in a new tab each time.

What I have noticed is that I can get my Tab to be reused if the new tab was still loading. But, once loaded I get a new tab opened and then have 2 tabs. the second thing is that if I use (http://www.google.com/) as the URL to open instead of the $LinkURL varriable it works as expected and I am able to reuse the same Tab each time I click a new link. Here is a sample of the code I am using:

function newwin (urllink) { newwindow = window.open( urllink ,'newwin'); //this is for closing the tab after some seconds, but i deactivate it for now //window.setInterval(function(){window.newwindow.close()},10500); }

<a href="javascript:newwin(\''.trim($CvITem_referal_link).'\');" id="LinkId_'.$J.'"> <img src="game/castleville/image/'.$ItemInfo_cat_img.'" name="'.$ItemInfo_cat_type.'" /> </a>

Find an answer here - stackoverflow.com/questions/10132833/… — Roy
– Roy, Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 20:29
Or also an answer can be found here : stackoverflow.com/a/14345456/686036 — blo0p3r
– blo0p3r, Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 20:40

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-03 20:41:38Z

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Instead of window.open, you can use location.href, this way:

function newwin (urllink) { location.href = urllink; }

Or if I didn't understand the question, and you wanted them to open in a one new and the same window always, you can do this way:

<a href="theLink" id="LinkId_" target="newTab"> <img src="game/castleville/image/'.$ItemInfo_cat_img.'" name="'.$ItemInfo_cat_type.'" /> </a>

answered Mar 3, 2013 at 20:41

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman

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Mohamed Amine Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer Praveen Kumar. in fact i wanted the links to be opened in a new tab but i wanted the tab to be reused each time i click a new link. and if there was no tab opened yet we open it for the first time then keep reusing it every time we clicked a link. I tried the the two scripts but no way; the first opened the link inside the current and active tab and the second kept opening new tab each time a link was clicked. => I want only one tab opened and keeping reused.

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman Over a year ago

@user2129653 The second one is supposed to open a new window on the first click and subsequent clicks should go to the same new window.

Mohamed Amine Over a year ago

tahnks again for replying;yes i totally agree with you that's right it will open new tab and continue reusing it... but not in my page I managed to close the opened tab before opening a new one ;) that's tip i am using for now. But the problem now if that i want to set the focus to the original window but couldn't een if i am using window.focus(); method ... have you any idea about that??

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