Let's say I have this function in a javascript on my web page that loads a url from an textfield with id url:
function loadUrl() { var url = document.getElementById('url').value; window.open(url, 'urlwindow'); } If I open two tabs in my browser and opens my web page in both tabs, I want both tabs to open the url in the same window, not two separate windows. Is this possible?
In other words, I want to target window opened from another tab.
You can't control the behaviur of the user's browser: just add as target windows "_blank" and hope your user have enough recent web client that opens a new tab and not a new window.
In my experience, this works perfectly (and just like you're trying to do it) with Firefox and IE, but not with Chrome or Safari.
Firefox and IE seem to use domain-specific namespaces for target names, while Chrome and Safari seem to use browser tab-specific namespaces for target names, so in these two browsers, 'urlwindow' as seen from tab A is different from 'urlwindow' as seen from tab B.
I'm trying to find a workaround for this myself, but have not yet been successful. See Chrome/Safari: how to open the same window from different tabs or windows
