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I'm curious to know why you need the JavaScript? If you add the <b>target=&quot;_blank&quot;</b> attribute to your <b>a</b> tag, then simply clicking on the link will open the url in a new tab.
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I'm curious to know why you need the JavaScript? If you add the target="_blank" attribute to your a tag, then simply clicking on the link will open the url in a new tab.

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I have this JavaScript hyperlink example:<br />
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<a href="https://jsfiddle.net/m1crp6ry/1/" rel="ugc">https://jsfiddle.net/m1crp6ry/1/</a><br />
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The hyperlinks work fine if I click on them.<br />
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I'm using Google Chrome web browser<br />
But, if I click the right button on my mouse over one of the links, the chrome menu opens, and it looks like this<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/05_w21/1318046/p1.PNG" target="_blank" title="google chrome mouse right button click menu (11 KB)"><img alt="google chrome mouse right button click menu" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/05_w21/800_1318046/p1.PNG" /></a><br />
if I then select <b>Open link in new tab</b> a new tab opens but it's just blank.<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/05_w21/1318050/p2.PNG" target="_blank" title="p2.PNG (13 KB)"><img alt="p2.PNG" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 528px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/05_w21/1318050/p2.PNG" /></a><br />
How do I fix my example, so if I select <b>Open link in new tab</b>, &nbsp;the new tab opens with the url I selected in it.
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google chrome mouse right button click menu

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I have this JavaScript hyperlink example:

https://jsfiddle.net/m1crp6ry/1/

The hyperlinks work fine if I click on them.

I'm using Google Chrome web browser
But, if I click the right button on my mouse over one of the links, the chrome menu opens, and it looks like this



if I then select Open link in new tab a new tab opens but it's just blank.


How do I fix my example, so if I select Open link in new tab,  the new tab opens with the url I selected in it.

Google Chrome Open link in new tab url

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Chrome is a free web browser created by Google. Originally released in 2008, it has grown to become the most used desktop web browser (as of October 2016).

Chrome

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.

JavaScript

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.