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Like this:<br />
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Put this in the &nbsp;of the page you want to remain open:<br />
<a href="http://somepage.html" rel="ugc">Link</a><br />
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Thanks,<br />
Brad
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Lets try that again:<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-124779"><span>&lt;a href=&quot;http://somepage.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;</span>
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Some browsers now will open new windows as a new tab, which can be confusing to some people. &nbsp;If you use a popup generator like this, specifying certain options such as window size can force the browser not to use tabs...<br />
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<a href="http://www.javascriptkit.com/popwin/index.shtml" rel="ugc">http://www.javascriptkit.com/popwin/index.shtml</a><br />

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I need the reader of the web page to be able to open a new page on a web site, while the previous site's page remains open in the background, so they close the top page. Can someone tell me how this is achieved please?
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I need the reader of the web page to be able to open a new page on a web site, while the previous site's page remains open in the background, so they close the top page. Can someone tell me how this is achieved please?

open a new page while the previous page remains in background

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