How can I open a link in new tab (and not new window)? [duplicate]

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Update [2019] Most browsers today open in a new tab when you set the target to _blank. The days of popup windows is long gone. We can now use:

 <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6296013/some url" target="_blank">content of the anchor</a>

Most sane browsers will open the new window in a new tab.

CSS3 supports “open in new tab”, by the property target-new

target-new: window | tab | none;

Update [2016]: this method never made it into the CSS3 spec, as one of the comments indicates. This shouldn’t be used. However, it can be seen that most modern browsers open target="_blank" links in a new tab anyway, unless one attempts to resize the new tab immediately thereafter. However, there does not appear to be a mechanism to force this behavior in the specifications.

[2011] For a method of forcing opening in a new tab that is well supported, try the following:

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6296013/some url" target="_newtab">content of the anchor</a>

Else, use this method to resize window immediately, to ensure that popup blockers do not kill your popup

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