有没有办法确保target = _blank链接在前台打开？

Question

For some browsers (and depending on settings), links with target = "_blank" seems to open in the foreground, but for a lot of others it seems to open in the background.

In my case opening in the foreground is what a user intends when she/he clicks on the link, so it would be nice if there is a way to ensure that. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.

Answer 1

There is no way to make sure these links open in the foreground. This is something the browsers arrange and there is nothing you can change about it.

You could however open the link in the same window by leaving out the target attribute, that will ensure the people clicking the link get to see the page immediatly. In a way this is also 'nicer' since it leaves the choice of opening the link in a new window to the user itself.

Answer 2

You can try using window.focus() to bring the new window to the front. You may do it on the opened document, using jquery, with:

$(function() {
    window.focus();
});

or from the original document:

var newWindow = window.open(url);
window.setTimeout(function() { newWindow.focus(); }, 1000);

The setTimeout is needed to allow time for the window to be actually created by the browser. There may be a cleaner method to achieve this, but the setTimeout should do it.