Open a new page on click of a link on same window

Question

I want to open a page on click of a link on same window. but the situation is that where the link resided is an Model Popup Extender. After clicking on the link first I close the Model Popup and then open the page. I try two methods.

 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function showMessage(err) {
       parent.document.getElementById("div1").style.visibility = "hidden";            
       window.location.href = err; //does't give any result.
       window.open (err,'_self',true);//open page in new tab
    }
</script>

Answer 1

You can do like this as well

window.location.assign(err);

Hope this is valuable information to you.

Answer 2

function toPage(){
   window.open ("http://stackoverflow.com/",'newpage',true);
   window.location.href ="https://github.com/";       
   return false;
}

return is required

Answer 3

I try this code and it successfully worked.

Firstly I sent the control from Child page to parent page, using this code.

 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function openpage(pageurl) {
    parent.openNewPage(pageurl);//call a function of parent page
    }
 </script>

 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
      function openNewPage(pageurl)
      {          
           window.open(pageurl,"_self","");
      }
 </script>

It closed first the Model Popup and then opened the new page on parent page.

thanks a lot all, for your co-operation.